The phrase "approve a right" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is granting permission or validating a specific entitlement or privilege.
Example: "The committee will meet next week to approve a right for the new land use proposal."
Alternatives: "grant a right" or "authorize a right".
A hullabaloo erupted anyway: Indiana's House of Representatives was about to approve a "right to work" bill when the Democratic minority mimicked their Wisconsin colleagues and fled the state.The debate is energising activists on both the left and the right.
Union members chanted "shame" as senators voted narrowly to approve a right to work law on Wednesday and moved it to the state Assembly, also controlled by Republicans, where a public hearing is scheduled for Monday.
Most significant, the top Hamas leader on the West Bank, Sheik Hassan Yussef, declared that the group should consider an indefinite "hudna" -- or pause in armed conflict -- if Israel were to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders, approve a right of return for Palestinian refugees, release long-term prisoners and raze the wall being built in the West Bank.
In April, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it was preparing to approve a right of way on federal land outside of the park for 12 miles of Eagle Crest transmission lines and a 15-mile, buried water pipeline from the wells.
IN DECEMBER India's cabinet approved a "right to food" bill that would give two-thirds of the population a right supposedly enforceable in law to cheap food.
State Republicans in February 2017 approved a right-to-work bill, preventing unions from signing contracts that require all workers to pay for union representation, effectively allowing employees to opt out of paying dues.
On Tuesday, the Michigan Legislature approved a right-to-work bill that critics say could break the back of organized labor in the state.
-- Spelling more trouble for organized labor in the U.S., Republican legislators in the Wisconsin state Senate approved a right-to-work bill here on Wednesday, sending the measure to a GOP-controlled Assembly where it's also expected to pass.
The GOP-controlled Wisconsin state Senate approved a right-to-work bill Wednesday, and the measure will now head to the GOP-controlled Assembly, where it's also expected to pass.
The New York State Legislature may finally be ready to approve a gay rights bill.
And New Yorkers still do not know whether lawmakers will revise the oft-criticized Rockefeller drug laws, raise the minimum wage, approve a gay rights measure, extend unemployment insurance, require clergy members to report allegations of child abuse.
