I showed her a new commemorative coin, and said approvingly at the head on the coin: "Ooh, she looks just like Rita Hayworth!" Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1988-1999 I didn't like her politics.
But it is seen as good news by the estate agency which has quoted it approvingly in a marketing brochure aimed at persuading developers to invest in a similar project, the proposed 291 luxury apartment scheme at Vauxhall Cross, on the south side of the Thames.
He quoted approvingly Lord Denning's dictum: "Be you ever so high, the law is above you".
It was the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, who demonstrated an easy command and authority and will have had plenty of non-Scottish Labourites nodding approvingly, even a tad enviously of those who can vote for Sturgeon's party.
There was much about his well-delivered speech to like: "the most Orange Book he has given", one minister told me (approvingly) afterwards.
The embassy was optimistic about the slant of the documentary, which included interviews with members of the Anglo-Chilean business community speaking approvingly about the coup.
Many refer approvingly to the observation of George Bush that Muslims from India have not in general turned up to fight the infidels on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Osborne cites approvingly the convention of American presidential candidates opening up their tax returns.
He says that executives at TEPCO and the other oligopolistic electricity utilities have stifled argument about Japan's nuclear-energy programme, both by pouring money into politics and by muffling the media through their huge advertising budgets.Yet those anxious for change note approvingly that even on energy policy, power has now shifted slightly towards local and regional governments.
Ms Bailyn approvingly notes the recent decision by America's National Science Foundation, which funds a big chunk of the universities' basic research, to allow grant recipients to take a break.Crucially, women's lead at first-degree level does not so far seem to have translated into better job opportunities.
Occasionally, those attending such events burst into songs in support of the president, approvingly watched over by muscly shabiha, the local pro-regime militiamen.In the Christian quarter of Bab Touma, a man says he is waiting for the end when the government crushes the insurgency.
