Word: sanctioned
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...fact, the Koran contains no injunction to destroy the images of other faiths. It does forbid depicting the Prophet: it is not an iconic religion. But none of the teachings of Islamic faith give sanction to what the Taliban are up to. "The terrible irony," says Philippe de Montebello, director of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "is that Islam is essentially a tolerant faith--much more so than Christianity used to be." If there is practically no medieval art left intact in England, for instance, it is because the godly minions of Oliver Cromwell--ancestors...
...There actually aren't very many cases where alcohol is an explicit part of the basis for an Ad Board sanction--less than two dozen per year," he writes in an e-mail...
...raising and his aggressive cultivation of Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch and other key Republican leaders. Freeh and his circle made no secret of their active antipathy toward Bill Clinton personally and the Clinton White House. Yet, for the incoming administration, Freeh, as a Clinton appointee , retained Democratic party sanction that could lend a patina of bipartisanship to the Bush national security team...
...attempt to change a belief were viewed as a challenge to identity, if certain subjects were simply not up for moral debate, there could be no discourse. A campus debate between Democrats and Republicans would quickly founder as soon as one side claimed for its views the unchallengeable sanction of identity...
...White House Interns Program is not alone. In Congress, and indeed in every state house and governor's office across the country, the vast majority of political internships come without pay and most sanction less-than-meritocratic means of entry...