The phrase "a yes from the" is not complete and lacks context, making it unclear in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to receiving an affirmative response from a specific person or group, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "We are waiting for a yes from the committee before we can proceed with the project."
Alternatives: "an approval from the" or "a confirmation from the".
If the decision is a yes from the government, this will still go on for years with people and councils fighting it through the courts.
She also secured a yes from the city schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, and his wife, Nicole Seligman, an executive vice president of Sony, after chatting with the couple at the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this summer.
With 2012 wrapping up, a year when neither recession nor high wind and water got in the way of those seeking memorable ways of prompting a "yes!" from the targets of their affections, we searched high and low for the most interesting proposals submitted this year to the Weddings/Celebrations pages of The Times.
A "yes" from the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) may be the only way of saving the missions which are at risk of cancellation due to lack of funds.
A founder should want a yes from the investor who's assessed 250 startups in the last quarter versus the investor who's assessed maybe 20.
And getting a yes from the wrong investor can be risky as a founder could be investing more of their career in a startup that has a lower deemed probability of success.
Without a "yes" from Slovakia, the backstop fund cannot act proactively, further complicating the eurozone's efforts to deal with a crisis that has already seen three countries get bailouts and raised fears of a Greek default and massive losses for banks.
Granted, that question was, perhaps, general enough to elicit a "yes" from even the once-every-two-years hobbyist.
But it turns out that one of the jurors had changed his decision between the deliberations and the verdict reading, without telling the others (there is buzz that several jurors turned their heads in surprise upon hearing a "yes" from one of the male jurors on the fourth claim, though we didn't see that from our vantage point).
A majority of voters (51.6%) supported a Scottish parliament but the referendum was annulled because the rules required a yes from at least 40% of the overall electorate.
Minutes before final consideration of a bitterly contested measure to give President Bush expanded trade negotiating authority, Mr. DeMint switched to a yes from a no, providing the swing vote in a 215-214 outcome.
