government-sanctioned

These monuments reflected the zeitgeist, as the 1950s brought public, even government-sanctioned, expression of religion to the fore in many ways.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

If the phone industry hadn't had a government-sanctioned monopoly, competition would have made service ever cheaper and more accessible anyway.

Fact And Comment 2011

The Fed also took on billions of dollars worth of AIG securities, also before the official government-sanctioned bailout.

Think Progress » Price expands GOP repeal campaign: We should repeal all of TARP, the stimulus, and ‘the bailout philosophy.’ 2010

In return for government-sanctioned collusion, firms gave incumbent workers large pay increases.

Comment of the Week, 2003-08-27, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Last week, federal wildlife officials proposed letting Idaho kill off scores of wolves in what would be the largest government-sanctioned wolf culling in that state since the animals were reintroduced to the Rockies in the mid-1990s.

Montana Gov. Threatens To Slaughter Wolves In Defiance Of Endangered Species Act Yahoo! News 2011

An unknown number of civilians have also been killed in government-sanctioned airstrikes.

2 Yemeni soldiers killed in al-Qaeda clashes 2011

It's unclear whether the latest steps will be enough to curb the price increases or whether they are a precursor to more drastic — and potentially destabilizing — actions later, such as trade barriers and government-sanctioned hoarding.

Emerging Nations Tackle Food Costs Eric Bellman 2011

Last week, federal wildlife officials proposed letting Idaho kill off scores of wolves in what would be the largest government-sanctioned wolf culling in that state since the animals were reintroduced to the Rockies in the mid-1990s.

Montana Gov. Threatens To Slaughter Wolves In Defiance Of Endangered Species Act Yahoo! News 2011

However, our story was wrong in saying that both chaired a recent government-sanctioned Damascus conference on possible reforms, and that both attended a meeting with Syria's vice-president: this applied to Louay Hussein, not Maan Abdelsalam.

Corrections and clarifications 2011

Last week, federal wildlife officials proposed letting Idaho kill off scores of wolves in what would be the largest government-sanctioned wolf culling in that state since the animals were reintroduced to the Rockies in the mid-1990s.

Montana Gov. Threatens To Slaughter Wolves In Defiance Of Endangered Species Act Yahoo! News 2011