About the same time that Constantine gave a legal sanction to the ecclesiastical order, he instituted in the Roman empire the nice balance of the civil and the military powers.
Giannone observes, in a very different spirit, that they gave a legal sanction to the canons of councils.
The moderation or the contempt of the Romans gave a legal sanction to the form of ecclesiastical police which was instituted by the vanquished sect.
By this measure the whole existing Church system of Scotland was deprived of legal sanction.
They were now driven by necessity to the step from which they had shrunk, that of convening a Parliament on the reformed basis of representation, though such a basis had no legal sanction.
The Protectorate, deprived by its own act of all chance of legal sanction, became a simple tyranny.
The postage to America and the West Indies rested on no legal sanction.
Nor would it have been calculated to appease the merchants if they had known, as the postmasters-general knew, that the entire rates of postage, as they then existed, rested on no legal sanction.
Now, considered either as a lesson or as a spur to action, what would a legal sanction add to the providential sanction?
We can understand, however, that the community does not choose to depend altogether on the slow action of necessary responsibility, and judges it fit to add a legal sanction to the natural sanction.
It seems to me beyond doubt that when a legal sanctionis brought into play, it ought only to be to give more force, regularity, certainty, and efficacy to the natural sanction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal sanction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
