Sentence examples for approved an open from inspiring English sources

In an initiative championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and opposed by both parties, voters approved an open primary system in which candidates of all qualifying parties will be put on the same primary ballot.

Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, revealed that the Department of Justice had approved an "open criminal investigation" into the death of Mr Foley, who is thought to have been killed by a gang of three British terrorists known as 'The Beatles', who are guarding Western hostages for Isis near Naqqa in Syria.

Mr. Richner approved an open-forum youth section written by high school and college students.

Bloomingdale's residents recently approved an open-space tax, even though he and others are trying to halt the construction of 360 town houses on Federal Hill, a mountain that separates the town from I-287.

The news on Virgin America came just before European Union transport ministers approved an "open-skies" deal between America and the EU which leaves rules on foreign ownership of American carriers untouched.

The period up until the year 2000 was characterized as the reform period (Doi moi) in which the government approved an 'open door' policy (chinh sach mo cua), implementing a more liberal and multi-sector market economy (Vuong, 2014).

SurDoc's technology is based on UOML, a new document standard whose development was led by company founder Alex Wang, that's been approved an international information open standards body OASIS.

However, he and other officials complained that the process for choosing Mr. Rato was too elitist, with the Europeans allowed to select the primary candidate who is then approved without an open debate.

Praise like that is probably why business is booming at Ocean Approved, an open-ocean commercial kelp farm also based in Portland that provides their products to Flatbread Co. and a number of other restaurants and food service institutions including hospitals and universities.

To judge by the gushing enthusiasm of Swiss Europhiles, you would think that the result of the referendum on May 21st, in which 67% of the voters approved a deal to open Switzerland up to the European Union, was nothing less than an end to Swiss isolationism, and an unambiguous endorsement of efforts to tempt the country into the EU.

Mexico's Congress has approved a measure to open the state-run oil fields to foreign investment for the first time in 75 years, following a vote by the Senate earlier this week.