But it does not seem sensible to accept them unless they can be given rational sanction.

This in effect recognized and gave official sanction to the thriving black market.

Skye wasn't going to give sanction to the conversation by making a comment.

And lotteries give official sanction to gambling, far more so in the case of a Federal lottery.

She gave sanction to my claim of need.

To have the character to give sanction to grammar - phew!

These are not empty words and phrases, but principles given powerful institutional sanction.

With the government giving sanction in 1898, work began in full earnest.

But, the state of society which gave sanction to his ownership no longer exists.

However, the articles signed by the Confederation gave official sanction to earlier custom.