The phrase "approval of action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the endorsement or acceptance of a specific action or decision.
Example: "The committee's approval of action was necessary before proceeding with the project."
Alternatives: "endorsement of action" or "authorization of action".
Reliance on these foundations is typically associated with approval of actions that uphold virtues and practices related to these foundations, vigilance against violations of the virtues and practices, and disapproval of such violations36.
It charged that he failed to comply with the Committee's subpoenas, even though they called for information that was needed to resolve "fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions demonstrated by other evidence to be substantial grounds for impeachment of the President".
In the context of this discussion it is clear that Kant is referring to the use of the power of the legislature to refuse funding, and therefore approval, of actions of the executive.
As a first approximation, such judgment consists in approval of actions of a certain kind, and the belief that telling the truth to the judge is an action of that kind (cf. Barker 2000).
We distinguish which traits are virtuous and which are vicious by means of our feelings of approval and disapproval toward the traits; our approval of actions is derived from approval of the traits we suppose to have given rise to them.
It follows from this that the motive that originally "bestows a merit on any action" can never be moral approval of that action (awareness of its virtue), but must be a non-moral, motivating psychological state — that is, a state distinct from the "regard to the virtue" of an action (moral approval or disapproval) (T 3.2.1.4).
The tightest connection which requires motivation in anyone who accepts the judgment that some action is right is rather well explained by a very simple version of emotivism on which a judgment that some action is right conventionally expresses one's approval of that action.
Approval of deferred action status means that, for the humanitarian reasons described below, no action will thereafter be taken to proceed against an apparently deportable alien, even on grounds normally regarded as aggravated. 6 C. Gordon, S. Mailman, & S. Yale-Loehr, Immigration Law and Procedure §72.03[h] (1998).
They decided all actions via consensus-decision making, whereby you can indicate approval of an action by a quick show of jazz hands.
Prior Council approval of military action had rarely been sought and had infrequently been granted.
