Sentence examples for approve the rules from inspiring English sources
Members of the commission voted unanimously to approve the rules.
Mr. Powell and three other commissioners voted to approve the rules.
A majority of the Union's 27 member nations would need to approve the rules for them to take effect.
(And it will be months yet before the individual agencies approve the rules and put them into effect).
In any event, European Union diplomats said ministers were unlikely to formally approve the rules on Tuesday because details still needed to be nailed down.
The revisions are expected to go next month to a State Senate and House committee that could approve the rules without further action by the Legislature.
The commission, which now has four sitting members, voted unanimously to approve the rule.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which voted unanimously to approve the rule, planned to finish it months ago.
But those changes barely squeaked by the S.E.C., which must approve the rule-making board's actions.
While the commission could ignore the committee and approve the rule over substantial opposition, that is viewed as politically unlikely.
