the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 911. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell. -Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
