Sentence examples for approved him as from inspiring English sources

Baseball approved him as a free agent on Nov. 10, 2008, and a month later, Viciedo and the White Sox agreed to a four-year, $10 million contract.

Yet for four months, from when the NHL approved him as owner in February until New York Newsday published a cover story on his financial improprieties in July, Spano owned the Islanders -- all without paying very much at all.

In December 1992 parliament refused to approve him as head of government.

In early March, Bishop Dixon told Father Edwards and Christ Church that she would not approve him as rector.

A9 Wolfowitz Woos Europe Paul D. Wolfowitz visited Europe as a supplicant for its good will, shedding his image as a unilateralist and entreating his hosts to approve him as the world's banker for the poor.

Erdogan, however, told the American president that he needed to wait for Parliament to formally approve him as prime minister first, which his Turkish critics saw as cheeky, immature standing on ceremony.

For Mr. Bollinger, 55, last week was a whirlwind that began with leaked reports that he was a finalist for the Columbia presidency and ended Saturday with a unanimous vote by Columbia's trustees approving him as George Rupp's successor.

In his statement, King said that he intended to continue his involvement with the Glasgow club in conjunction with Paul Murray and had approached the Scottish Football Association to approve him as a "fit and proper person" to be in a position of control at Ibrox.

Major topics of news coverage had to be approved by him, as did important articles, especially opinion essays.

They approved of him as a model for us all, particularly when it came to spiritual life.

His staff released a schedule showing how the bill could be approved as soon as Friday.