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sanctioning

ADJECTIVE
enabling
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In 2021, Colon was named an honorary WBC world champion by president of the sanctioning body Mauricio Sulaiman.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“Management’s attention is shifting towards offence,” Kenny says, pointing to the sanctioning of its $1.2 billion Sustainable Aviation Fuel project, growing field gas throughput at Brazeau River Complex, and restarting Ram River in 2H.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

But he added that "there are still significant loopholes and areas that have been unaddressed by sanctioning countries", allowing volumes to remain high.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

The law said the president in response to a national emergency may deal with an “unusual and extraordinary threat” by freezing assets or sanctioning a foreign country or otherwise regulating trade.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

In sanctioning the present publication, they have been actuated solely by the pure motive of rescuing the reputation of their father from unmerited reproach.

From Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review by E. B. Brenton




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