31.   Kohl seemed more reserved in his reaction Wednesday, declining to say whether Germany would follow the US with sanctions of its own.

32.   Put aside for the moment the fact that any responsible judge familiar with cases of mistaken convictions should feel hesitant about imposing the ultimate sanction of death.

33.   Second are the U.S.-supported sanctions of Iraq, which the Muslim world blames for severe suffering, especially among women and children.

34.   Still, when I started this program, it was mostly to get the degree so I had the official sanction of government authorities.

35.   The biggest outstanding issue is whether the court will be able to act independently, or only with the sanction of the U.N. Security Council.

36.   The board already has adopted the progressive sanctions of the new Juvenile Justice Code.

37.   The Chinese have shown little sign of acquiescing and are threatening to retaliate with sanctions of their own.

38.   The committee recommended the disbarment, rejecting lesser sanctions of a suspension of his license or a reprimand, a penalty that Clinton had suggested he might have accepted.

39.   The letter noted that unilateral sanctions of food and medicine do not work.

40.   The police alleged that Amir acted with the sanction of fundamentalist rabbis who had declared Rabin an enemy under Jewish religious law.