Concurrence vs Sanction - What's the difference?
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An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
Sanction is a synonym of concurrence.
As nouns the difference between concurrence and sanction
is that concurrence is agreement; concurring while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.sanction
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(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.