Historical tradition and the unchanging habits of lovers give their sanction to most of the scenes in Campaspe.
Returning, he persuades the king to sanction the murder of his queen, to be accomplished by the French hireling, Jaques.
The 28th verse of the fourth Sura does by no means sanction concubinage.
In this he had the sanction of the military law or the international law, as deception in war is a "military necessity," and allowed by the law and usages of war.
Then they were allowed to fight, 'A sanction is given to those who are fought.
The declaration of Augustus relieved their doubts, gave a legalsanction to confidential testaments and codicils, and gently unravelled the forms and restraints of the republican jurisprudence.
The Decemvirs had neglected to import the sanction of Zaleucus, which so long maintained the integrity of his republic.
The conscience of the judge was perplexed by the number and weight of discordant testimonies, and every sentence that his passion or interest might pronounce was justified by the sanction of some venerable name.
A treaty of peace was negotiated by the bishop of Ravenna; the Ostrogoths were admitted into the city, and the hostile kings consented, under the sanction of an oath, to rule with equal and undivided authority the provinces of Italy.
The forged Decretals gave a more positive sanction to absolutist claims; and interpolations in the Greek Fathers deceived St. Thomas Aquinas into giving his powerful authority to infallibilism.
The theory of democracy--vox populi vox dei--is a pure superstition, a belief in a divine or natural sanction which does not exist.
Did the Founder of Christianity contemplate or even implicitly sanction the establishment of a semi-political international society, such as the Catholic Church has actually been?
Because they have denied the divine sanction and the perpetuity of the great dogmas which enter into the Christian creed.
This barbarous pastime, which claims the sanction of high antiquity, was practised at an early period by the Grecians, and probably still more anciently in Asia.
To the inner ear he was extolling passion and rebellion in terms of a creed that enjoins detachment from both; inciting to political murder, under sanction of the divine dictum, 'Who kills the body kills naught .
When Sixtus was asked, as a matter of form, for his sanction to the discharge of the prisoners, he peremptorily refused it.
He was, however, kept under strict surveillance, and forbidden to leave his house or receive any of his intimate friends without having first obtained the sanction of the ecclesiastical authorities.
After duly considering this proposal, Kepler decided to accept the Duke's offer, provided it received the sanction of the Emperor.
Well, the short of it is, she told me her woes and begged me to give my sanction to her securing a divorce!
No bill would, it is presumed, be presented for my signature which would operate either for or against me, and I would certainly sanction none in my favor.
It is not doubted that the British Government will comply with this requisition, and that the act suggested may be passed by Congress with full confidence that the reciprocal measure will receive the sanctionof the British Parliament.
For every act requiring legislativesanction or support the State authority must be relied on.
It is this alternative which the Executive, under the sanction and injunctions above stated, offered to the British Government, and which that Government has accepted.
To motives of interest this Government has invariably disclaimed all pretension, being resolved to take no part in the controversy or other measure in regard to it which should not merit the sanction of the civilized world.
He implored the Provisional Government to give theirsanction to this, and had they done so, he has stated that he could have kept the Allies at bay and would have ultimately made them sue for peace.
They made terms with him under the sanction of the British name.
Indeed, more than one French Governor conceived the notion, with the sanction of the King of France, of putting an end entirely to English colonization in the island.
In 1901 an Act was passed giving sanctionto a new agreement with Mr Reid in regard to the railways, and incorporating the Reid Newfoundland Company.
These articles were proposed to the British minister by the Secretary of State under my express sanction and were acceded to by him and have since been ratified by both Governments.
Measures of a financial character now having the sanction of legal enactment shall be faithfully enforced until repealed by the legislative authority.
An effort was made to renew it, which received thesanction of the two Houses of Congress, but the then President of the United States exercised his veto power and the measure was defeated.
When border collisions come to receive the sanction or to be made on the authority of either Government general war must be the inevitable result.
I was unwilling to sanction a measure which would thus indirectly overturn the adjustment of our differences with the Cherokees, accomplished with so much difficulty, and to which time is reconciling those Indians.
Had the extraordinary report which the committee thus made to the House been permitted to remain without the sanction of the latter, I should not have uttered a regret or complaint upon the subject.
I must therefore regard this clause as asserting the power to be in Congress to establish offices of discount in a State not only without its assent, but against its dissent, and so regarding it I can not sanction it.
No court of justice would or couldsanction them without reversing all that is established in judicial proceeding by introducing presumptions at variance with fact and inferences at the expense of reason.
Only very gradually did the new translation make its way; and not until the time of Gregory the Great, at the close of the sixth century, did it receive the explicit sanction of the head of the Roman Church.
Aware as he was of your hatred for his name, he dared not to ask your sanction for his addresses; but it was for no other end than to confer with me how that sanctionmight be obtained that he sought, and I permitted, his coming here.
And you think then," said the old man, changing his tone, "that I shall be so obliging as to sanction this romantic love!
I ought not to have followed your advice, in accepting the faith of a man, without the sanction of my father.
There are those who knock and immediately enter without waiting for the sanction asked.
A sort of sanction had, however, been given to the servants to demur to producing supper or drinks after six in the morning, so that, about eight, unrelieved tobacco began to be too heavy even for juvenile constitutions.
Sterling Morton, then president of the state Board of Agriculture, it received the official sanction of the state by the proclamation of Governor R.
The committee of a lunatic, with the sanction of the judge in lunacy, may refer disputes to arbitration.
In the United Kingdom, however, more attention has recently been given to the question of strengthening the sanction for the carrying out of awards and agreements than of compelling the parties to enter into such arrangements.
An international award cannot be enforced directly; in other words it has no legal sanction behind it.
International awards, as already pointed out, differ from civil awards in having no legal sanction by which they can be enforced.
Pope Urban had given his sanction to the scheme, and summoned a second council to meet in Clermont the following November, to confer upon measures for sending armed forces into Asia.
Hope not that divine sanction will back thine endeavor, and expect not aid or succor by thy sister's intervention.
Animated by a renewed hope, he called a council of the clergy and nobility of his kingdom to deliberate on the propriety of an expedition to the Holy Land, and by their advice despatched deputies to gain the sanction of Pope Eugenius.
Pages of the earlier records are full of the sanction of deception of enemies, friends, and strangers.
But it must work with the full sanction of intelligence and allow a continual widening activity of reason and judgment.
Etiquette required that before she answered, she should have thesanction of the empress.
I come, with the sanction of your guardian, to offer you my hand.
He may come to gain your majesty's sanction to his ambitious plans of territorial aggrandizement.
But I shall lend my sanction to none of her ambitious schetney.
I begin to feel all the rashness of my undertaking, and although it has the sanction of your majesty and the empress, I feel like a criminal, every moment dreading discovery.
The dauphiness, without thesanction of the king; indulges in private theatricals.
It has commonly been the practice, under the almost universal sanction of great authorities, to place the student who may be desirous of acquiring the Art of Painting, before some object, and to direct him to copy what he sees.
It is prevented from being merely an organisation that could possibly have his sanction as such--that is, an organisation that would be able to say: This is his, and this only.
