When we deliver to these areas crossing borders, we notify, but do not seek explicit approval from, the Syrian government.
As an interim step, Mr. Paulson proposed allowing those organizations to change their rules without seeking explicit approval from regulators.
"The decision to close Kaesong is a very big decision that no one in North Korea can make without explicit approval from Kim Jong-il," he said.
The company committed to getting explicit approval from its users a process known as "opting in" before changing their privacy controls.
Even after obtaining explicit approval from American regulators, some have found it difficult to convince banks to send money.Technology may offer a partial solution.
Aides to Mr. Powell said they regarded some of the recent attacks as both puzzling and misguided, noting that the secretary had been extremely careful not to undertake any initiatives without explicit approval from the president.
During the 2007 visit of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, one Catholic priest told Commissioners that in the past, the Church had to wait for explicit approval from the GVN before moving forward with the appointment of clergy.
Striking outside the declared zones, however, required commanders to seek explicit approval from Mr. Bush, forcing him to decide whether to authorize a more aggressive military action only weeks into his term.
Those images, many of which are reduced to thumbnail size, are then displayed in the search engine's results listings, again without explicit approval from the artists who created the images in the first place.
And he took a series of decisions that were to come back to haunt him from monitoring telephone calls without explicit approval from the courts to establishing military tribunals.
