Another word for sanctioned

I want it to be sanctioned by god.

Liabilities arising out of agreements concluded after May 6 1915 are null and void if not sanctioned by the Government.

Special bonds have since, however, been to a limited extent sanctioned by law.

By the powerful influence of the president, government measures were sanctioned by the legislature dealing with the abuses.

A conference held at Constantinople sanctioned the union on terms which were rendered acceptable to the sultan; but Said Pasha, who had assisted the sultan in centralizing at Yildiz Kiosk the administration of the country, and who had become grand vizier, was a strong adherent of the policy of armed intervention by Turkey, and the consequence was his fall from office.