absolute sanction

In England money and property were thought to be the business of God and both received His absolute sanction.

Traditionally, messianism had inspired people to criticize the status quo, but Kook would use it to give absolute sanction to Israeli policy.

What was next was simply unthinkable, and there was only one neurosurgeon in the world with the technical wherewithal, the absolute sanction and the unfettered hubris to pull it off.

"Here says Santayana, is the tragedy of the Puritan: the spirit that seeks to govern and is not content to understand, that rebels against nature and animal faith and demands some absolute sanction for love.