An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, punishment, 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 any of the above.
To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
An invocation of that right.
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
To use a veto against.