Sentence examples for could have approved from inspiring English sources

"With this information, the idea that they could have approved the statement of Warner's presumed innocence beggars belief.

To be sure, neither of them were asked their feelings about this, and if they had been, neither could have approved.

Court documents also reveal that the Sudanese justice ministry could have approved Berhe's extradition by overriding the recommendations of Sudanese investigators.

The fact that the new results confirm the old ones raises questions about whether the F.D.A. could have approved the drug earlier.

The BIS committee commented: "Successive governments have not prioritised the issue sufficiently to force it up the agenda at the European commission, which could have approved the full package years ago.

Specifically, Persky could have approved or helped negotiate a bargain in which Ramirez only pleaded guilty to the lesser of two charges he was facing – assault with intent to commit rape.

"I was asked, 'How could you have approved that?'" Mr. Hoylman recalled.

The fund's board could not have approved the bail-out had they thought that the fund would lose money.

(Incidentally, as Ezra Klein notes, how could McCain have "approved this message" if the message was sent while McCain was still fully occupied on the stage at Ole Miss?) Partly thanks to Chris Matthews, who, post-debate, kept asking everyone he interviewed why McCain had refused to look Obama in the eye, McCain's churlishness became a story.

How could Pope Benedict have approved the candidacy of someone with such a shady past?

Indeed, his image has been appropriated in electoral bids, hip-hop songs, church sermons and fast-food ads -- of such diverse and contradictory meanings that he couldn't possibly have approved of all of them.