Sentence examples for approve shipments from inspiring English sources

But the administration has refused persistent rebel requests to approve shipments to the opposition fighters of portable surface-to-air missiles that could be used to shoot down government aircraft.

Cell biologists aren't happy either: There's no one at customs to approve shipments of research fruit flies, and grant reviews are on hold.

Parnell approved shipments despite such warnings.

Thus far, after considerable delay and pressure from some on Capitol Hill for more robust action, Mr Obama has approved shipments of only light arms and ammunition in a CIA covert operation, using funds from the agency's existing budget.

The Commerce official was embarrassed by charges that his bureaucracy had approved shipments to Iraq that might have helped its production of weapons of mass destruction; he lashed back at the men who had opposed such shipments, criticizing Mr. Maloof as a "low-level clerk" who was part of a group of " ankle-biters." Slang dictionaries offer little help.

The facts and evidence were presented in the report of a commission led by former Senator John G. Tower, and later in the majority report of a Congressional investigating committee, showing that Mr. Reagan had approved shipments of weapons to Iran months before he issued his first public denial.

He tells Israel that Washington would approve Israeli shipments of artillery or ammunition to Iran.

Gabriel Dieblas Roman took orders from cartel bosses in Mexico, hard men who ruled by fear, but he wouldn't approve a shipment without talking to a plucky, middle-aged woman from Compton.

There are some exemptions to the ban -- Canada, for instance, can receive American oil shipments -- and President Barack Obama's Commerce Department has been approving additional shipments to other countries.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday also floated the idea to halt previously approved arms shipments to Egypt as part of a coordinated EU response.

They were stunned and even more so when Gallo told them to recruit someone from the cosmetics division to sign bogus forms that said the USDA had approved the shipments.