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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as he approved" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was done in accordance with someone's approval or consent.
Example: "The project was executed as he approved, ensuring all specifications were met."
Alternatives: "as he consented" or "as he authorized".
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Bannon rarely saw the twins, but, according to the marital-settlement agreement, he was responsible for their private-school tuition — as long as he approved of the school.
Mr Bush often issued "signing statements" as he approved laws, asserting that certain portions were unconstitutional and so unenforceable.If anything, there are likely to be more such clashes over the coming months, suggests Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, another think-tank, since they provide the president with a triple benefit.
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It sounded as if he approved.
As president he approved the French conquest of Madagascar and exchanged visits with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1896 and 1897.
As commissioner, he approved the first franchise relocations in 50 years: the Boston Braves to Milwaukee in 1953, the St . LouisBrowns to Baltimore in 1954, and the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City in 1955.
Even the king, in an equivocal speech that year, sounded at times as if he approved of it.Father knows bestOther countries, from Spain to Brazil, have overcome dictatorial pasts to grow into strong democracies whose politics is mostly conducted in parliament, not on the streets.
He called the happiness survey "a no-brainer" that he approved as soon as it was suggested.
As deputy mayor, he approved a loan to replenish the city's supply.
As finance minister, he approved three interventions in the global currency markets in attempt to weaken the yen.
As a radical he approved of extensive land-tenure reform in Ireland, but, faced with the violence of the Irish agricultural revolution, he called for parliamentary measures of coercion to maintain law and order a policy that completely failed.
"The vast majority of the Trasteverini are on their side," says one man in his 20s, an estate agent who did not want to be named, perhaps because, as he admits, he approved of the illegal occupation.
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