1 I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being.
2 I am the warrant and the sanction.
3 Nor, indeed, has any attempt ever been made to introduce unusual laws among a people, without resorting to Divine authority, since without such sanction they never would have been accepted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI. 4 Whereupon the senate sent messengers to demand by what sanction they had deserted their commanders and assembled there in arms.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIV. 5 to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.
6 edition, which was published with the sanction of the papal.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH... 7 What she required, for the moment, of the Dorsets' friendship, was simply its social sanction.
8 Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
9 I have said my master found religious sanction for his cruelty.
10 If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP 11 He consulted the old prince, and with his sanction gave Kitty his diary, in which there was written the confession that tortured him.
12 We shall then have your willing sanction, good Cedric," said Prince John, "to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.
13 'We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke.
14 He would at once approach Valentine's father and acknowledge all, begging Villefort to pardon and sanction the love which united two fond and loving hearts.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 15 I said this almost involuntarily, and, with as little sanction of free will, my tears gushed out.