However, as Mr. Miller pointed out, the Council has no direct approval over the stadium.
Any Nightwatch activity outside those communities required Mr. Carway's direct approval, the memo said.
Mr. Daft's predecessor, M. Douglas Ivester, earned a reputation for making all but the smallest decisions himself, leaving many Coke executives around world with the numbing sense that they could do little without his direct approval.
Bishops had a variety of disciplinary tools at their disposal — including the power to remove accused priests from contact with children and to suspend them from ministry altogether — that they could use without the Vatican's direct approval.
A federal judge has ruled that "stop-and-frisk" policies pursued by the New York Police Department, with the direct approval of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, unfairly target black and Hispanic residents and are a violation of their constitutional rights.
But recently the library found a new solution: after a complicated bureaucratic minuet, the library won itself a new status that allows it to put its budget directly on the ballot as a separate line item, to gain direct approval for its money from voters.
New York City's budget director, Adam L. Barsky, has told the city's agency leaders that they may not commit to any new spending or contracts that would rely on any state money without the direct approval of the Office of Management and Budget, citing the austerity budget passed last week by the State Legislature.
Musk is apparently looking to rein in expenditures, too, noting that anything costing more than a million dollars requires his direct approval.
Today the U.S. intelligence community released a report claiming that the Russian government was behind hacks of American political organizations during the 2016 election cycle and that the hackers acted with Russian President Vladimir Putin's direct approval.
Idaho, Kentucky, Maine and Washington were the only states where the Common Core required direct approval from legislators.
