Sentence examples for approbation upon from inspiring English sources
After receiving critical approbation upon its initial publication in in 1997, E. Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" was, some might say, inevitably bound for the big screen.
Yet when Jefferson expressed his own view on the branches of morality (true religion), he did not mention belief in an afterlife.[12] His 1814 letter to Law (13 June) mentions belief in an afterlife merely as one of the correctives to lack of a moral sense, along with self-interest, the approbation of others upon doing good, and the rewards and punishments of laws.
And no era is presently being gazed upon with more pie-eyed approbation than the waning years of the twentieth century.
Turnbull believes that it can only be favorable, and he bases this upon the zeal and the approbation which one of the principal ministers manifested to him concerning the enterprise.
His actions and governance generally followed the instructions he was given upon appointment to office, and he received approbation from the monarchs and governments that appointed him.
If in this view it pleases us, we are tolerably satisfied… if we are doubtful about it, we are often, upon that very account, more anxious to gain their approbation, and … we are altogether distracted at the thoughts of their censure, which then strikes us with double severity (Smith 1982, p. 109).
In America, it came to refer to the suits — the Washington lawyers, the New York bankers, and the university presidents, along with their academic and journalistic epigones — upon whose wisdom elected officials were accustomed to rely, and without whose approbation no public policy could be expected to succeed.
Looking for praise and approbation.
Homeless people deserve neither praise nor approbation.
They want his attention, his approbation.
