Sentence examples for approve steps from inspiring English sources

The union has asked federal officials to approve steps that could eventually lead to a strike, but that permission has not been granted.

Beijing has been hesitant to approve steps to further democratize Hong Kong's semiautonomous government, like making the top government post directly elected.

On the same day China's legislature approved steps to turn competing civilian agencies into a unified coastguard.

The cabinet has already approved steps toward banning the bags, termed daisies here because they dot so much of the countryside.

The majority held that the state's interest in proper identification an interest it already expresses through constitutionally approved steps such as fingerprinting and mugshots—outweighs the slight incursion into the suspect's already diminished expectation of privacy.

The fact that not one of the agency's 238 skilled craft workers was a woman, she wrote, represented proof of sexual discrimination, and she approved steps to correct the imbalance.

Because more tests are planned and the president must simply approve preliminary steps toward construction, the test need only to indicate the program is feasible, not actually ready to deploy.

Mr. Bernanke's remarks, at a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, confirmed Wall Street analysts' expectations that the Federal Open Market Committee would approve new steps at its next meeting on Nov. 2-3.

But she noted that Congress had been unwilling to approve those steps in recent years.

The Trump White House lobbied aggressively against the sanctions bills, in particular a provision that would require Congress to approve any steps to loosen the sanctions on Russia.

The emergency meeting to approve the steps was convened after a day of violence in the holy city on Tuesday that saw three Israelis killed and over 20 wounded by Palestinians in a series of stabbing, shooting, and vehicular attacks.