A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an
auto-antonym
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Examples of sanctions include:
Government and law
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Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts
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Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions or embargoes are Commerce, commercial and Finance, financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals. Economic sanctions are a form of Coercion (international relations), coercion tha ...
, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors (such as armaments), or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine), e.g.,
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Sanctions against Iran
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Sanctions against North Korea
A number of country and international bodies have imposed international sanctions against North Korea. Currently, many sanctions are concerned with North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and were imposed after its first nuclear test in 2006. ...
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International sanctions
International sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states or organizations either to protect national security interests, or to protect i ...
, coercive measures adopted by a country or a group of countries against another state or individual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behavior
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International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
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Pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign's solemn decree which addresses a matter of primary importance and which has the force of fundamental law
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''The Eiger Sanction'' (novel), a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker
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''The Eiger Sanction'' (film), the 1975 film adaptation of Trevanian's novel
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The Loo Sanction'', Trevanian's 1973 sequel to ''The Eiger Sanction''
Television episodes
* "Sanction",
''Freezing'' season 1, episode 7 (2011)
* "Sanctions",
''Gangsta'' episode 5 (2015)
* "The Sanction",
''V: The Series'' episode 5 (1984)
Other uses
* Sanctions, a mechanism of
social control
Social control is the regulations, sanctions, mechanisms, and systems that restrict the behaviour of individuals in accordance with social norms and orders. Through both informal and formal means, individuals and groups exercise social con ...
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Sports governing body or sanctioning body
See also
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Sanctions involving Russia
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Sanctioned name, a special name in mycology
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Wikipedia:Sanctions
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