Sentence examples for approve things from inspiring English sources
"Now the officials won't accept money, but don't approve things, either".
Congress has to approve things like budgets and taxes, and in case you haven't noticed, Congress has become increasingly sclerotic.
"Of course some people will pick up on [the chaos] as an opportunity to approve things that should require longer discussions and push forward changes like this one," says Jonathan Bausch, an ecologist at the Mamiraúa Institute for Sustainable Development in Tefé.
This is his mark, when he approves things (a five-sided star with one side missing).
The families must be under enormous pressure from Hezbollah, Hamas, and other such organizations to say only the approved things.
Agencies have more or less effective counterincentives, of course; the American Food and Drug Administration cares about pharmaceutical companies, but its employees also care very, very much about not approving things that poison people (which isn't necessarily good, as it may prevent the approval of lifesaving drugs... but that is another post).
So NICE is approving things that are less cost-effective than lots of boilerplate treatments.
"We're not Neanderthals," says George Young, general manager of the New York Giants and a member of the key NFL committee that approves things like the helmet intercoms and the like.
Rhapsody VP Neil Smith tells the NYT that "not approving things for the app store is giving people a reason to say, 'I'm not going to buy an iPhone.'".
It is natural to expect that people prepared to give up a spring weekend for Europe will tend to approve of things European.
My expectations weren't high - like Jarvis Cocker, I don't approve of things like tumbling - but the five performers, four men and one woman, were amazing.
