Sanctioned

Examples

• They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them. Plato. The Republic.
• How could such a covenant, such adoption, be sanctioned by the Church? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was very well for Paulina to decline further correspondence with Graham till her father had sanctioned the intercourse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had sanctioned his sister's proposal that the deceased lady should be laid in her mother's grave in Limmeridge churchyard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I hastened to sanction the presence of the embroidery, exactly as I had sanctioned the absence of the burst buzzard and the Cupid's wing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It sanctioned and promoted freedom of inquiry in all technical details of natural and historical phenomena. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mr. Thesiger sanctioned the request, Mr. Bulstrode sat down, and Mr. Hawley continued. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I would keep exact accounts of all the expenditure you sanctioned, Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But at that period there was no sort of reasoning which was not more or less sanctioned by men of science. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The words history and geography suggest simply the matter which has been traditionally sanctioned in the schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Typist: Marcus