Sentence examples similar to approving gesture from inspiring English sources

C. Brown: (approving hand gesture and smile) And there's the President.

It does seem that when commentators approve of gestures designed to communicate without words, to emphasise elements of character, or to move the spectator emotionally through performance – all facets which many of us would claim precisely as "good theatre" – they choose instead other words.

Yet there is something beyond the tangible that sets this coupe apart and consistently earns it approving nods and gestures.

"Andy Rollman, I'd like to ask you: Will you marry me?" Most council members approved of the gesture and offered congratulations, ABC 7's Sam Ford reported.

Officials familiar with the New Mexico talks said Secretary of State Colin L. Powell recommended approving them, making the conciliatory gesture of lifting travel restrictions on the North Koreans.

His sympathetic audience laughed and clapped; Mr. Akin replied, "I assume you're not approving lynchings," and made a choking gesture.

When the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross called for an exchange of sick and disabled POWs as a goodwill gesture, Eisenhower approved.

Plus, you can make a quick checkmark gesture to approve set amounts typed in by the merchant.

The gesture was approved after a pool of residents indicates at ratio of 10-to-1 supported it.

Politicking reduced the number to 50000 acre, but both Dole's and Gore's gestures were approved by Congress.

ReprintsFrank Bruni, a columnist and former restaurant critic for the New York Times, called Mr Bloomberg's ban "an absurd and random gesture", but ultimately approved.