Word: sanctioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American voters' choice on November 2 is not limited to Ford and Carter. Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D.-Minn.) is seeking support for a third party candidacy that could weaken the Democrat's showing enough to throw the election to Ford. It is a challenge to sanction this indulgent candidacy in an elction in which the American people face clear alternatives. While well-heeled liberals may be able to afford the cost of purist voting, they should consider the consequences of their action for the men and women who have spent the last eight years battling to protect their meager...
...interpretation of reality is a construction that depends on the nature of the institutions that have social sanction to construct and validate what we perceive as real. In our own Western tradition, these have been the church, the state, and more recently the sciences. At present, the sciences are the chief generators and certifiers of reality...
...finally its order last year to dissolve the seminary, Lefebvre continued to operate it. His defiance came to a head this past June when Lefebvre, once again disregarding Vatican orders, ordained 13 priests and 13 sub-deacons. In July the Vatican announced that he was suspended a divinis, a sanction that bars him from saying Mass, administering the sacraments and preaching. Disregarding the suspension, Lefebvre went ahead with the Lille Mass last week...
...special television programs, endless newspaper articles and the publication of a book. After all, the Russians were the original sponsors of Helsinki, and their dominance of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, a fact for more than a generation, was legitimized by the accord. This kind of quasi-juridical sanction had long been a major goal of Kremlin foreign policy...
...Heider, an anthropologist from the University of South Carolina. Heider, who has taught at Harvard, Brown and Stanford, describes the abstemious sexual behavior of the 5,000-member tribe in the current issue of Man, the journal of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation for the undernourished libidos of the Dani. Under questioning, tribesmen said violation of the post partum abstinence would cause trouble with the tribe's ghosts. Yet the Dani are notably blase about their ghosts, and Heider concludes that their observance...