The phrase "approbation by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone or something has received approval or praise from someone else. For example: "The artist's work was met with great approbation by the critics." This means that the critics were highly impressed and complimentary of the artist's work.
Approbation by ecclesiastical censor (p. 124) is included dated 3 Apr.
The choice of ministers purely on personal grounds was favouritism; public approbation by the people through Parliament should determine their selection.
Tony Blair speaks French, and has earned great approbation by doing so in France confirming the view that French surliness towards the British evaporates if the latter make a little effort.
The novel which chronicles the day of struggling artist Stephen Dedalus, Jewish ad man Leopold Bloom, and Leopold's cuckolding wife Molly Bloom was met simultaneously with approbation by Joyce's Modernist contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, and disdain by antiobscenity advocates in English-speaking countries.
In the Treatise Hume emphasizes that "our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but … there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and approbation by means of an artifice or contrivance, which arises from the circumstances and necessities of mankind" (T 3.2.1.1).
That small wage premium is due to the flooding of the market by foreign applicants, something correctly forecast (with approbation) by the National Science Foundation years ago.
Though the critical approbation elicited by her acting was significant, it was exceeded by the attention paid to her lustrous lyric soprano.
For both Plato and Aristotle and in many respects for Greek popular morality kalon has a particular role to play as ethical approbation, not by meaning the same thing that agathon "good" means, but as a special complement to goodness.
This is bound to exasperate partisans of any particular aboutness, whose goal is not case-by-case approbation but blanketing justice.
"Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment," Darwin concluded, "originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit".
What results is a complex whole: "Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit" (p. 157).
