This is great, Andy: Both the tip and the reference to the Forum. I had done this calculation in an Excel spreadsheet where you type a zip code in one box and it then calculates the distance between that zip and every other to make a table, but never knew how to make it dynamic. A big time saver. ReplyDelete.
What is SANCTION? In the original sense of the word, a âsanctionâ is a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence, a law is said to have a sanction when there is a state which will intervene if it is disobeyed or disregarded. Therefore international law has no legal sanction.
Not long after, in the 1600s, it also came to be used to refer to the penalty enacted to cause one to obey a law or decree. From the noun, a verb sanction was created in the 18th century meaning to allow by law, but it wasn't until the second half of the 1900s that it began to mean to punish (for breaking a law)..