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Definitions of sanctions in various dictionaries:
noun - formal and explicit approval
noun - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
noun - official permission or approval
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| The military type of these were imposed on North Korea in the '50s; the economic type, on Rhodesia in the '60s |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) When Mandela walked out of prison, he set off a celebration here in Cape Town and all of South Africa, but he asked the international community to keep pressure on South Africa's regime by not abandoning these punitive economic measures |
| From the Latin for "holy", they're economic measures taken against a nation for violating international law |
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A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an auto-antonym. * Examples of sanctions include: * Involving countries: * Economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors (such as armaments), or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine) like sanctions against Iran * International sanctions, coercive measures adopted by a country or a group of countries against another state or individual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behavior * Pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign's solemn decree which addresses a matter of primary importance and which has the force of fundamental law * In other uses: * Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts * Sanctions, a mechanism of social control * Sanctioned name, a special name in mycology * Wikipedia:Sanctions |