In some parts of the world, geophagia is a culturally sanctioned practice.

The symptom or deficit, after appropriate investigation, cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition, the direct effects of a substance, or as a culturally sanctioned behavior or experience.

Poor women and girls are oppressed and discriminated against, denied education and medical care and victimized by culturally sanctioned violence.

But she and others have observed that today, it is as often the weaker party who calls it quits, tired of a role that is no longer culturally sanctioned.

When an image or metaphor rang true for me, it proved only that I shared with the author a set of definitions, a culturally sanctioned list of word associations.

The only culturally sanctioned excuse to wear pajamas outdoors.

They refer to the violence as culturally sanctioned homicide.

(6) The slots and their requirements for life scripts are culturally important transitional events and their culturally sanctioned timing.

Some of this trading was culturally sanctioned, some of it was not.

Numerous empirical studies challenge the concept that male abuse or control of women is culturally sanctioned.