Sentence examples for approving remark from inspiring English sources

Halfway through my breakfast, a trio of elderly Bavarian gents trooped in and joined me at my table (sharing tables is common in Munich, another thoroughly civilised convention) and the eldest-looking, who was sporting one of those dainty felt hats, pointed at my breakfast and made what appeared to be an approving remark.

Instead, the groups were equipped with iPads, and their comments, objections and approving remarks were reflected in real-time on a white board.

That this is what Geach has in mind is clear from some approving remarks he makes in his 1973 article about Quine's (1970) proposal to treat identity as a non-logical notion.

The demands by Mr. Paul's supporters came after he had decided not to speak at the Republican National Convention after the Romney campaign insisted on approving his remarks beforehand.

They would vet and approve whatever remarks he makes — an option they wouldn't have if they denied him a slot and left him to his own devices on cable television.

Over the years, few even approving commentators have remarked on what a funny book "Revolutionary Road" is, its black-on-black grimness and serious moral mien perhaps overmatching most critics' comic sensitivity about an era we normally don't think of as chock-full of laughs.

Some of the Lutheran pastors who have attacked him have also brought charges against the synod's president, the Rev. Gerald B. Kieschnick, for approving Pastor Benke's remarks and for appearing at a service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the larger, more liberal Lutheran denomination.

However, while he criticised the extravagance of the plot and action sequences, he believed that this added to the enjoyment of the film, and particularly approved of the remark "I think he's attempting re-entry!" by "Q" during Bond and Goodhead's orbiting of the Earth which he described as "featuring what might be the best double entendre ever".

A 2009 cable from Madrid, about human rights advocates seeking an indictment of six former American officials for approving torture, took out a remark critical of Baltasar Garzón, a Spanish judge known for going after high-profile foreign targets.

Several legal scholars have remarked that in approving waterboarding, the near-drowning method Mr. Obama and his aides have described as torture, the Justice Department lawyers did not cite cases in which the United States government previously prosecuted American law enforcement officials and Japanese World War II interrogators for using the procedure.

I've worked in DC as well and it is standard that Clinton or someone on her campaign team either provided Bill Clinton's talking points or approved his general remarks.