Sentence examples for as it approved from inspiring English sources

But it did not reach a conclusion on the issue as it approved Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, an advertising distribution network.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management acknowledged that thousands of sea creatures will be harmed even as it approved opening the outer continental shelf from Delaware to Florida to exploration.

Nearly 30 years ago, a young Republican lawyer named Richard E. Wiley led the Federal Communications Commission as it approved a landmark regulation that restricted a company from owning both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city.

The commission said it was "concerned about the use made of the taxes," as well as possible "overcompensation" of France Télévisions in the future, even as it approved a special €450 million grant this year to ensure "continuity".

And last year, for the first time anyone could remember, the city rejected as many applications as it approved, in a cryptic process that mystifies those who have gone through it.

BRUSSELS -- The European Parliament on Thursday moved to mend a rift with the United States as it approved restarting a program to track financial and bank transfers, which the United States said was vital to its effort to fight terrorism.

Get a petition signed to have a sports program offered at your school If you can, get it approved as soon as possible.

But some municipal officials said that in the current diplomatic climate, the local planning committee was likely to be careful about what it approved as well.

Congress approved financing for the innovation fund almost as an asterisk when it approved $100 billion in federal education aid under the stimulus program in February.

In just the first quarter of the year (the last three months of calendar year 2010), the agency approved $9 billion in 7(a) loans, nearly as much as it had approved in all of 2009.

Right now Bnter exists only as a Web site, but Ms. Leto says a similar iPhone app will have its debut as soon as it is approved by Apple.