From the New Hampshire primary in February, through the party conventions this summer, to the start of the general-election campaign on Labor Day, public opinion held remarkably steady: three-quarters of the American people, according to New York Times/CBS News polls, disapproved of the way the President was handling the economy.
Morton suggests that one of the work's attractions to Waugh was his personal identification with Lupin, and the way in which the disapproved son (as Waugh saw himself) repeatedly manages to turn adverse circumstances to his ultimate advantage.
The petitioner is thus driven to the position that the Constitution of the United States has been infringed because the Doney Case was disapproved, and yet, while disapproved, was followed.
Americans were divided on the fiscal cliff agreement, with 45percentt approving and 38percentt disapproving, although far more strongly disapproved than strongly approved.
Every human society has some form of social order, some way of marking and encouraging approved behavior, deterring disapproved behavior, and resolving disputes.
An overwhelming 89percentt of the GOP voters disapproved of Obama -- and more than half disapproved of the city of Chicago itself.
The section on Hart Crane, for example, opines that "partly in consequence of his early emotional insecurity, he was a homosexual," whereas now we would assume it was the other way around: that Crane's early sense of being different and disapproved of for it led to his emotional insecurity.
A few disapproved of Delaroche's choice of painting, while others disapproved of Delaroche himself, saying, in some form, that he sought the genius of Napoleon, to no avail.
When asked, "Do you approve or disapprove of HB2 — the state's new anti-transgender law?" 50% disapproved and 35% approved.
Only 40percentt of those under 30 strongly disapproved of GOP health care plans, with another eight percent slightly disapproving of them.
