Speaking on French radio, Cope said a veil ban did not aim to sanction a particular population.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.

他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。

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He will have to do the recruiting of people that come with him on the colony; he will have to do the constitutional discussion and a political discussion to gain the sanction from the mother city to allow him to do everything he knows.

他需要招募很多人手,来帮助他去建立殖民地,他的提案必须通过立宪讨论和政治会议,这样母邦才能许可,他才能建立殖民地

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Proposals to sanction Iran's gasoline imports, which account for 40 percent of its needs, have been advocated by various lawmakers in recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Iranian officials this week warned against attempts to sanction gasoline imports.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Like the House version,the Senate measure would amend the 1996 Iran Sanctions Act to allow the president to sanction foreign companies involved in enabling the shipment of gasoline and other refined petroleum products to Iran, or helping to maintain its existing refining capacity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28