sanction

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Appeared in the May 5, 2026, print edition as 'California Moves to Sanction State Farm Over Wildfires'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Sanction worries have driven some independent refiners known as teapots, once a dynamic group of customers consuming about a third of China's Russian oil imports, to fly under the radar.

From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022

Sanction rules leave exceptions for legal representation on matters that do not facilitate sanctioned conduct and, of course, there are still many Russian companies not on the sanctions list.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2022

Jurkowski also made several social media posts regarding the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement, as well as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

From Fox News • Dec. 23, 2021

The Pragmatic Sanction dealt in the main with four subjects—the authority of church councils, the diminishing of papal patronage, the restriction of papal taxation, and the limitation of appeals to Rome.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin