Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of 17 Harvard Medical School student returned from the Philippines last week after completing a month-long program deemed too risky for official University sanction, school officials said yesterday...
...conference source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the only obstacle to ratifying the tentative agreement was a reluctance by Iranian authorities in Tehran to sanction the deal...
Besides, in Moscow's thinking, the partial denuclearization of Soviet military strategy required the much more thorough denuclearization of the American military presence in Europe. Moscow might be more willing to bargain away some of its own missiles, but it was more determined than ever not to sanction the stationing of new, land-based American nuclear weapons near the Soviet border...
Heralded as a top foreign recruit, Hall had trouble getting NCAA sanction to play American college soccer. The national committee initially ruled him ineligible on account of his brief stint with a professional club in England. When Hall proved he had never been paid to play, the restriction was reduced to a six-game...
...successful leader, Keegan argues, a commander must master five imperatives: the imperative of kinship (persuading his troops that he understands and cares for them); the imperative of prescription (being able to tell his troops exactly what he wants and why); the imperative of sanction (convincing the troops that they will be rewarded if they fight and punished if they don't); the imperative of action (knowing when to attack); and the imperative of example (showing that he shares in the troops' dangers...