Sentence examples for could not approve from inspiring English sources

Ms. Ayotte said she could not approve a debt-limit increase without a cap on all federal spending.

Fund officials have always said that without significant pension cuts, they could not approve any new deal.

However, the committee could not approve her request that a new bench be placed near the spot where he died.

The National Audit Office, parliament's financial watchdog, for the fifth year running, said it could not approve the MoD's accounts.

Nora C. Marino, a board member who abstained from voting, said she could not approve the proposal because she had not had enough time to review it.

The F.D.A. also told the drugmaker it could not approve the drugs until the company resolved some manufacturing violations the agency outlined in a recent warning letter.

Mysteriously, Vega said it couldn't approve just any name: "Roast name subject to approval by Vega.

You couldn't approve a drug for healthy men without a randomized clinical trial.

In his ruling Monday, the judge said he couldn't approve a settlement that was based on "mere allegations".

He shook his head at my mother's dancing, as if he couldn't approve of the way she was moving but couldn't quit paying attention, either.

The Senate couldn't approve its own version of a health-care bill, and it wasn't just McCain who blocked multiple attempts to do so.