http://editdesk.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/should-we-sanction-this/ Thoughts on editing for print and online media Thu, 16 May 2013 02:29:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://editdesk.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/should-we-sanction-this/#comment-48 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:53:00 +0000 http://editdesk.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/should-we-sanction-this/#comment-48 Does it really lose the other meaning? I think context would allow both to coexist, as both meanings do for “cleave”, or any of the dozens of other auto-antonyms English has. One would sanction a country or government in the “impose sanctions on” meaning, but an action in the “allow” meaning. I don’t think there would be many cases where true confusion would occur.

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