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sanction

penalty or other mean of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law
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sanction

Summary

sanction is a legal term or legal concept[1]. sanction draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (legal_term_or_legal_concept category, ranking #124 of 484).[2]

Key Facts

  • sanction's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • sanction is a type of punishment[4].
  • sanction is part of legal norm[5].
  • sanction is part of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions[6].
  • sanction's Commons category is recorded as Sanctions[7].
  • sanction is the opposite of bounty[8].
  • sanction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sanctions[9].
  • sanction's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10].
  • sanction's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[11].
  • sanction's different from is recorded as consent[12].
  • sanction's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/sanction[13].

Body

Geography

Part of include legal norm[5] and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions[6], a nonprofit organization[14], founded in 2005[15].

Designation and Status

sanction's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].

Why It Matters

sanction draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (legal_term_or_legal_concept category, ranking #124 of 484).[2] sanction has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] sanction is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). sanction. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sanction
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sanction_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sanction}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sanction}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → consent
    Euronews topic id → sanctions
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → punishment
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10012, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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