Sentence examples for approving term from inspiring English sources

They also said they resented any implication that voters, in approving term limits, did something stupid.

The city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., who has been planning a run for mayor next year, said voters had made their feelings clear in approving term limits in 1993 and again in 1996.

"It would be very easy to put together a campaign saying that legislators are trying to tell the voters they did something wrong" in approving term limits, said James Moore, a political science professor at the University of Portland in Oregon.

Now comes Mr Gay China, reported in approving terms in English-language state media.

Ms Livni spoke in similarly approving terms of Israel's "wild reaction" and "bully-boy behaviour" in response to Hamas's refusal to stop firing rockets into Israel.

With Beame's arrival the "Times" news columns dealt with him in approving terms; the editorial writers gave him a rough time.

Anyway, in Dr Jensen's pitch to be science minister, he also spoke in approving terms of climate science denier Lord Christopher Monckton, saying that most of the things which Lord Monckton has said are "entirely reasonable".

In his earlier comments to reporters, Mr. Bush said that he had talked by telephone on Friday with Senator John B. Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, who leads a group of moderate Democrats in the Senate and whose Medicare proposals Mr. Bush has often described in approving terms.

The voters approved term limits in 1993.

Voters twice approved term limits in the 1990's, restrictions that are forcing Mr. Giuliani to leave office.

After a well-financed campaign orchestrated by Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, voters approved term limits on all city officials in 1993, and again in 1996.