Sanction has two nearly opposite meanings: to sanction can be to approve of something, but it can also mean to punish, or speak harshly to. Likewise, a sanction can be a punishment or approval. Very confusingââthe person who invented this word should be publicly sanctioned! See if you can guess the meaning of sanction in the following contexts.
Artist's rendering of concept for the Bering Strait bridge. The Bering Strait was last crossed by humans 20,000 years ago during the ice age, when ice formed a bridge between North America and Asia. Today, 47 miles and some of the harshest ocean and arctic conditions separate the two continents. However, there are many who believe there would be great economical, sociological, and political value in connecting the two land masses by bridge or tunnel.
This land bridge connected Asia and North America at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. The term Beringia was coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hulten hultÃ©n in. 1937 during the ice, Ages, beringia like most Of siberia and all of north and Northeast, china was not glaciated because snowfall was very. light