sanctioned by law

Although sanctioned by law enforcement officials, the gunmen were not always actually deputized.

Some persons consider that plunder is perfectly justifiable, if only sanctioned by law.

We therefore call on the Commission to recognise collective sales and accept that such practical solidarity among small sports clubs is sanctioned by law.

It was founded in 1972 and its creation was sanctioned by Law [2].

Drijeva rapidly became a port for slave trading, along with Brštanik, and this was sanctioned by law.

Such a police force becomes merely an aggregate of uniformed criminals, the more baneful in that their position is unchallenged and sanctioned by law.

Side by side with such unions existed, and still exist, unions not sanctioned by law.

This is sanctioned by law, which automatically permits polygamy unless spouses specify that this is unacceptable upon marriage.

However, the first time this subdivision was explicitly used as sanctioned by law was in 1936, with the official division of Catalonia in comarques.

Others, such as the National Committee for Adoption, maintain that surrogate motherhood, if sanctioned by law, will result in the large-scale selling of unwanted babies.

This practice was sanctioned by law as all trade from the Viceroyalty was required to go through Callao on its way to and from overseas markets.

Yet the practice, which the authors called dangerous, is sanctioned by law in California and other places and is commonplace among cities that offer pensions to their workers.

After some years of deliberations by the Croatian Parliament and the Emperor Franz Joseph, it was finally sanctioned by law in 1866.

The Council is the statutory representative of consumers in Fiji, in other words, its representation of consumers and their rights and interest is sanctioned by law.

Although the privilege of nondisclosure is still sanctioned by law in most states, in the years since Tarasoff the screen of confidentiality governing what patients tell therapists has been increasingly perforated.

Avraham Ravitz, a strictly Orthodox legislator, said the High Court was turning Israel into a "Sodom and Gomorrah, in which every possible perversion is sanctioned by law."

He also distinguishes Harrison from the Peters case based on the fact that, in this case, the appellant had an interest sanctioned by law, in pursuing legitimate claims against her employer.

Errors crept in also when Athens replaced its old Attic alphabet with the Ionian alphabet, a change sanctioned by law in 403-2 BC, adding a new complication to the task of copying.

And finally, there were dozens of general agreements never officially sanctioned by law, including admissions guidelines, maintaining a nontuition policy for California residents other than "incidental costs," and beginning a policy of charging tuition for out-of-state students.

While some countries, such as Australia, permit marriages to be held in private and at any location, others, including England and Wales, require that the civil ceremony be conducted in a place open to the public and specially sanctioned by law.

The result of their labours 'is remarkable,' says Grub, 'for its general resemblance to the external polity of the Church, as it existed before the Reformation in Scotland, and as it was at that time sanctioned by law in England.'

It was a tradition that avoided any real contemplation of the root causes of German unease; their preference for 'action', rested secure in the knowledge that everything they did was for the good of the nation, sanctioned by law and sanctioned by the German people.

What they say they use it for, and what they can use it for are different, and since we have no knowledge, consent or opt out, anything that can be used to personally identify us - as in this case - should be illegal unless specifically sanctioned by law.

An adjective first introduced to define the inviolability of the function (potestas) of the tribunes of the plebs and of other magistrates sanctioned by law leges Valeriae Horatiae in 449 BC, mentioned by Livy III 55, 1.