Others uttered purging cries of approval to make their change of loyalty easier.
Then cries of approval would have erupted from the people here as they did in Egypt in Tahrir Square.
He chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, which finally earned him cries of approval from the GOP base but sent moderate voters scurrying Obama's way.
Throughout the day, such cries of approval were reserved for two distinct groups: truly extraordinary skiers or yahoos who looked as if they had death wishes.
To warm cries of approval from both Athens and Ankara, the French foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, made a Solomonic judgment that the EU should list the Turkish-Greek differences under a new heading: "enhanced political dialogue and political criteria".
Bono, taking a microphone at the curtain call, paid tribute to her creativity, though he drew the loudest cries of approval when he said, "By the way, you're looking hot, Julie".
This was the second game in succession in which fans welcomed the team coach into the stadium with a corridor of roars and it was just like the old days thereafter, with the Kop awash with flags and banners prior to kick-off and a source of songs and cries of approval once play, and the goals, were under way.
Thus, because violence begets violence, Wright thunders to his congregation that 9/11 was a case of the "chickens coming home to roost" and receives loud cries of approval from the assembled congregants.
"The Yemeni people have had enough!" she cried, to roars of approval.
"I want to say to 'thieves in law' that they can cancel their airplane tickets, because they cannot come back to Georgia," he cried, to a roar of approval, "because we have made a choice between the past and the future!" Meanwhile, outside Gldani Prison No. 8, a new facility where the abuse videos were taped, mothers have gathered every night since the scandal broke and call out to their sons.
But that's a far cry from a societal stamp of approval.
