Word: sanctioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cops began to complain that they were bored on the beat, reduced to taking daily joy rides on the few campus-area roads they were allowed to patrol. Officers started responding without sanction to calls in nearby areas of Cambridge, raising the ire of city officials...
...applaud Judge Wright for finally calling the president to task for his misdeeds. Her finding-a civil, not a criminal, ruling-is a sanction appropriate to the president's offense. There is no doubt that the president lied during his deposition. But, given that the questionably motivated lawsuit was dismissed, it is reasonable that Judge Wright opted for the less-serious civil contempt citation...
...immediately see the political bias: if there's no social significance to the biological differences between men and women, then any legal or social sanction that separates men and women into distinct categories, such as marriage, is inherently flawed...
...Dismissal is the strongest sanction that has been voted in modern times for disciplining a student," the statement continued...
...Faculty have spoken," Richardson said. "We were not in any doubt that a rape occurred in this instance. Where we disagreed was on the appropriateness of the sanction of dismissal for this particular case...