Sentence examples for approving the rules from inspiring English sources

In approving the rules on 7 June 2012, the EU council expanded the directive to include solar panels, fluorescent lighting containing mercury, and equipment containing ozone-depleting substances.

Justice Tingling called the rules "arbitrary and capricious" and said the city's Board of Health, which is appointed by the mayor, had overstepped its authority in approving the rules.

The court, the First Department of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, concurred with a lower court's ruling that the city's Board of Health, appointed by the mayor, overstepped its bounds as a nonlegislative body by approving the rule.

It approved the rules in a 2-to-1 vote.

Members of the commission voted unanimously to approve the rules.

Mr. Powell and three other commissioners voted to approve the rules.

"Our job started on June 3," the day after the commission approved the rules.

Once approved, the rules would become official within a two-year span.

Last month, however, the federal Fish and Wildlife Service approved the rules and Connecticut has become the 49th state to legalize falconry.

A majority of the Union's 27 member nations would need to approve the rules for them to take effect.

(And it will be months yet before the individual agencies approve the rules and put them into effect).