sanctioned
sangk shuhnd
- v give sanction to
- v give authority or permission to
- v give religious sanction to, such as through on oath
- s conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
- s formally approved and invested with legal authority
- s established by authority; given authoritative approval
- One of the firms sanctioned, called Hong Kong Electronics and located on Kish Island, Iran, is alleged to have transferred millions of dollars of proliferation-related funds from .
- The state-sanctioned Protestant church has 17 million members; Bays believes that membership in unregistered churches is twice that, which would put the total number of Protestants .
- It is common for ideas in research to begin with incomplete statistical observations that inspire National Science Foundation- or Institutes of Medicine-sanctioned studies to prove .