Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ignored a report by a committee of negligence lawyers who approved of the present method of settling auto-liability claims because it "is derived from the religious belief that each of us is responsible to his God for his own conduct." Not quite so certain of divine sanction, the full house decided instead to order a comprehensive study of the procedure (TIME...
Second, the University should encourage groups at all academic levels to take stands on the war and the draft: departments, common rooms, committees. Third, it should sanction the use of funds for anti-draft use if one of the Schools should advocate financial aid to resisters. Fourth, it should not discipline students for demonstrations unless they are "maliciously destructive...
...warfare. One of his maxims is to fight only when the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor and success is certain, a precept that his troops violated nearly everywhere they struck in the course of his general offensive last week. What lies behind Giap's turnabout, which in its sanction of attacks on cities and towns constitutes the most important change of tactics by either side...
...section, "Inappropriate Abstinence," I beg leave to add a clarifying footnote. You state: "Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence." By implication, this appears to say that Methodist publications now sanction "appropriate drinking...
...speak freely and not fear retribution." Why should a man not be punished for murder? The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in encouraging the abrogation of individual responsibility: but the monstrous immorality of its stand in the Bartsch case demonstrates too well what effect official sanction of such abrogation can have...