"Ultimately, marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus and the use of social sanctions," he said.

There may be a variety of social sanctions which lead to a high level of participation.

The problem of the extent to which character education can be divorced from social sanctions is both real and impossible to assess.

"Rulers should enforce only those laws for which God revealed social sanctions to be imposed"

From this perspective there are no legal but a fortiori social sanctions.

Perhaps social sanctions can stop boorish behavior more effectively than laws can.

We are already beginning to see social sanctions regarding the use of cell phones.

These informal social sanctions display potency despite competing values in a changing society.

Less than fifty years ago such relationships were next to impossible, leading to severe social sanctions.

What happened to religious, legal or social sanctions against the irresponsible abandonment of a pregnant woman?