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We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.
Even then, our trips were limited to sanctioned national monuments celebrating the Great Leader.
There were no health claims, at least not federally sanctioned ones.
Cannibalistic funerary rites are another form of culturally sanctioned cannibalism.
The Final Executioner is the story of one of their would be victims, Alan (William Mang, who looks, not surprisingly, a lot like Kurt Russell), and his efforts to take down the legally sanctioned hunters, who are led by Edra (Marina Costa) and Erasmus (Harrison Muller Jr. ).
As Welles never took the time to edit his own work here, and somewhere along the way he or his heirs sanctioned someone else to do so, he is not entirely blameless for the debacle.
Even though rugby is not a sanctioned high school sport nationally, the team is a school-based club sport -- much like rodeo.
It's basically the Mormon bad news bears that play church sanctioned basketball.
This movie had potential due to the outrageous behavior that is exhibited by Mormons when they play church sanctioned basketball, however because it's rated PG, the true nature of the spectacle could not be transfered to film.
Even allowing for the culturally sanctioned inebriation, they have neither the courage nor the sense of responsibility to wake up the next morning and undo what they have set in motion.
The people who write these movies should be sanctioned by the MPAA.
But I can assure you this: It was in no way sanctioned or produced with the cooperation of the police.
If the film doesn't convince you of the justness of its cause, it at least offers a means to understand the issues and measure what is at stake for gay couples who seek the rights and validation offered by legally sanctioned marriage.
I can't believe that this was a sanctioned movie.
Armed Anglo-American intervention, especially if it is not sanctioned by the United Nations, would do much to undermine liberals and democrats, who need all the credibility they can get.
By acknowledging itself as finite and limited, society could think of itself as also sanctioned by God.
Unlike the World Trade Organization, for example, no international treaty underpins the FSB, which means that countries cannot be sanctioned for failing to implement the standards to which they are ostensibly committed.
The climate of officially sanctioned homophobia in Nigeria has already set back the fight against AIDS.
In 2014, the net worth of those who are subject to sanctions by the US and EU was estimated at around $17 billion; one sanctioned bank alone holds assets valued at more than $11 billion.
The US has sanctioned Russia and called Crimea’s annexation illegal.
He also adamantly opposes gay marriage, condones hate speech against LGBTQ people, and has been sanctioned no fewer than 30 times since 1991 by the Brazilian Bar Association for racism, xenophobia, and homophobia.
Those who violate the rules must be warned and finally sanctioned – preferably in an automatic fashion.
In the last 30 years, only 317 of 676 projects sanctioned by Parliament have been completed, and it is difficult to imagine how the railways will acquire the estimated $30 billion needed to complete the remaining 359 projects.
More recently, local commissions, non-governmental organizations, an increasingly assertive media, and sanctioned public demonstrations have become established channels for mediating social conflict.
How else could Liu Binjie, China’s censor-in-chief and the point man for silencing the Nobel laureate writer and human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo, be invited to lead a delegation of 21 officially sanctioned writers and dozens of ministerial minions to London to celebrate Chinese literature at the London Book Fair?
But is it really true that the world can or should learn about China only by reading works that are sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party?
Both the EU and the US have now sanctioned Russia’s highest officials and leading companies and banks.
In the immediate future, Sberbank – and other sanctioned banks – will be able to replace European funds with liquidity provided by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) or Asian sources.
Were Dutch law to permit the sacking of full time employees (not likely in these prosperous times) the proportion of the work force officially sanctioned as too sick or disabled to work would dramatically decline, as would the number of part-time and temporary workers.
The Court transferred the request to the Superior Council of Magistrates, which provided a full response: a four-page list of all sanctioned judges, with details of the reasons and penalties.
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