#sanction

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#businesses #climate #countries #heading #imperative

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kim-harrison #life

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#deny #fact #ground #morality #obvious

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market. ↗

— Ali Babacan

#buy #buys #cannot #country #currency

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aimed #being #certain #directly #end

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation. ↗

— Paul Harris

#human #human relationships #important #law #most

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. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#direction #dress #effect #end #follow

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. ↗

— William Hague

#clear #come #eu #force #further

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#apostles #church #conceivable #every #government