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To: goldbux

What about ‘sanction’?


42 posted on 05/12/2023 11:30:44 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto; null and void
"What about sanction?"
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Yes. It can be a noun or a verb.

Legally, it's both:
1.) a "provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience, or a reward for obedience"
2.) "the penalty or reward."

You could argue – lawyers love to argue, & say "moot" – that it's unambiguously a provision, but with two opposing effects. That's hairsplitting.

Let's consider sanction to be a quantum noun/verb with two possible opposite effects, depending on the context.

Thank you for that example.

44 posted on 05/12/2023 5:02:29 PM PDT by goldbux (“The whole world is a very narrow bridge. The main thing is to have no fear at all.” –– R. Nachman)
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