Word: sanctioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take it that they also agreed with the proposition that the ships are to have pilots of their own and are to go through the canal whether or not Egypt likes it?" he demanded. What alarmed Gaitskell most was Eden's implied threat to use force without U.N. sanction. "We are reverting to international anarchy," he cried. "We are asserting the view that each nation decides in its own right what it is going to do, and we are saying that only power counts...
...principles of 1888 was proclaimed in John Foster Dulles' skillful, lawyerlike opening conference speech. "In the Suez Canal the interdependence of nations reaches perhaps its highest point," said Dulles. "The economic life of many nations has been shaped by reliance on the Suez Canal system, which has treaty sanction. To shake and perhaps shatter that system or to seek gains from threatening to do so, is not a triumph, neither does it augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means...
...Connell who first gave un official sanction to the plan for providing unlimited quantities of reserved grandstand seats at cost for re-sale by the Council, according to Sloane. "I handle these matters and it's okay as far as I'm concerned," OC'onnell reportedly told Sloane, pending final confirmation by club hierarchy. He further advised the Council to begin action on the plan, Sloane said...
...Icardi, "since neither affording an individual a forum in which to protest his innocence nor extracting testimony with a view to a perjury prosecution is a valid legislative purpose." Furthermore, the Icardi hearing amounted to a "legislative trial," and the authority of Congress to investigate "cannot be extended to sanction a legislative trial and conviction of the individual toward whom the evidence points the finger of suspicion...
...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...