What's the difference between sacrosanct and sanction?

Sacrosanct


Definition:

  • (a.) Sacred; inviolable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus soaps are sacrosanct, Murderland with Robbie Coltrane is in, but Al Murray's Pub Landlord is definitely out, because it "goes down like a cup of cold sick in Scotland, a cockney landlord shouting at an audience".
  • (2) The NSA considers its ability to search for Americans' data through its massive collections of email, phone, text and other communications content a critical measure to discover terrorists and a sacrosanct prerogative.
  • (3) Many firms already make profits from providing services to schools, such as maintaining buildings and handling personnel matters, but until now the classroom itself has been sacrosanct.
  • (4) In my day, the reputation of the bank was sacrosanct.
  • (5) Until recently, the role of scientists in society has been considered sacrosanct.
  • (6) In the many internal rows on the subject, IDS argued that too much of the pain of austerity was being inflicted on the working-age poor, while pensioner benefits were treated as sacrosanct even when perks such as the free TV licence and winter fuel payments went to wealthy oldsters.
  • (7) I believe that the right to refuse a client is universal and sacrosanct; this right is the essential difference between a free sex worker and a coerced one.
  • (8) Elements of the left and the right agree that individual freedom should be sacrosanct, and that people should be allowed to make their own choices in life.
  • (9) One of the debates that has been reignited in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, principally among high school students, is why, if freedom of speech is so sacrosanct, the same right to offend was not granted to Dieudonné.
  • (10) In this paper I discuss the origins of the view that scientists and geneticists in particular, are sacrosanct.
  • (11) The paper's legal advice was that it could do no more than publish a front-page story saying it had been prevented from publishing the proceedings of parliament – a sacrosanct right since the 18th-century.
  • (12) No species has a sacrosanct right to everlasting life and surely it would be better to die out while living free rather than appear in this endless circus.
  • (13) We suggested that if we could prove to the court's satisfaction that the presence of the movement was demonstrably and effectively relevant to preventing an assault on the very rights and needs on the basis of which authorities are licensed to curtail otherwise sacrosanct rights such as the right to protest, then clearly that should be key to ascertaining on which side of this legal dispute the most "pressing social need" lay.
  • (14) They teach only four lessons daily, and their professional autonomy is sacrosanct.
  • (15) The passivity exhibited by Eulex has confirmed the apparent sacrosanctity of the elite instead, and it has reinforced what has aptly been called Kosovo’s “glass ceiling of accountability”.
  • (16) Vestager pushed through swingeing cuts to the country’s once-sacrosanct unemployment and early retirement benefits while economic affairs minister in the unstable three-party leftist coalition headed by the former Social Democrat prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
  • (17) We are particularly grateful for Liberty’s efforts in spearheading this litigation and making it possible for this information to be brought to light.” James Welch, legal director for Liberty, said: “Last year it was revealed that GCHQ were eavesdropping on sacrosanct lawyer-client conversations.
  • (18) 3.46pm GMT Kelly says the right to bear arms is sacrosanct, but the right does not extend to criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill. "Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership.
  • (19) Our view is that the 3pm window should remain sacrosanct and we’ve got serious reservations about increasing the amount of football on television,” said the FSF chairman, Malcolm Clarke.
  • (20) Legally, the handgun has been awarded sacrosanct status.

Sanction


Definition:

  • (n.) Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.
  • (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.
  • (v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (2) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
  • (3) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
  • (4) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
  • (5) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
  • (6) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (7) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
  • (8) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
  • (9) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
  • (10) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
  • (11) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
  • (12) Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret.
  • (13) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
  • (14) What is needed is decisive action, and a clear and unequivocal policy on maintaining and fully enforcing UN sanctions against the Eritrean regime.
  • (15) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
  • (16) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
  • (17) Abe’s attempts to build closer ties with Russia since he took office in 2012 registered some success until Tokyo threw its weight behind G7 sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year, and increased aid to Ukraine.
  • (18) The adoption of restrictive measures is not our choice; however, it is clear that the imposition of sanctions against us will not go without an adequate response from the Russian side.
  • (19) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
  • (20) UN sanctions were imposed on Libya to hand over two Libyan nationals for arrest in relation to the terrorist attack.