Word: sanctions
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...much for crime. How about punishment? "Perhaps the evidence in the end will warrant some lesser sanction than impeachment," wrote the Wall Street Journal. "But to shrink now from truth and judgment in the name of 'healing' is to make us all complicit with Mr. Clinton's behavior." Newsday opined: "The national jury is still out on whether he can be trusted to lead the country...
...Sabbath. By putting the religious mores of one faith into law, Massachusetts is violating the spirit of the principle of separation of church and state. While laws requiring once-a-week shop closings in general might serve the nominally secular purpose of providing a day of rest (an aim sanctioned by the Supreme Court), the alcohol law imparts a specific religious judgement about drinking on Sundays which the state is in no position to make. Those who wish to observe the Sabbath by not drinking alcohol are free to do so but don't need the state's sanction...
While they decry the sanction the students alsocomplain the disciplinary procedure was forebodingand intimidating...
From the perspective of international sanction, the Israeli expansion into Palestinian land is a violation of U.N. resolutions. In light of the international community's repeated protests, Palestinian grievances take on a new shade. Their loss of territory is not simply a national gripe, but a transgression against prior agreements and the sanction of the world at large...
...denial of the obvious? Are we not aware that America's own declining moral and ethical standards are reflected in the polls that sanction the alleged conduct of the President [NATION, March 30]? We individually need to become cognizant of our personal values in order to effect change. Americans should not accept less than the most noble of ideals in our leaders. VIVIAN WEEDE Oro Valley, Ariz...