Sentence examples for for disapproval from inspiring English sources

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The Wembley crowd were not overjoyed after 45 minutes but they had been given no cause either for disapproval.

Perhaps mistaking my silence for disapproval at the maid's young age, Mother said, "I wanted someone young, to get used to our ways, to be like a daughter".

He's softly spoken and appears rather shy: his responses to questions are punctuated with long silences, which at first I mistake for disapproval, but turn out to mean that he's thinking hard about his answer.

It may seem even stranger that the fact that nato suffered not a single combat casualty should be an occasion for disapproval — as if this omission were somehow unsporting, or as if there were any evidence that military deaths on nato's side would have meant fewer civilian deaths among the Albanians and the Serbs.

I'm slightly taken aback when I discover she's still breastfeeding, just because her newly minted glossiness seems so far from the fuzzy-haired, milky dressing-gowned image I associate with new motherhood, and I think she takes my surprise for disapproval, or something, because she launches into a passionate defence of breastfeeding.

I mentioned to my sister that this silence can, I guess, be taken for disapproval.

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For one, the voters had high levels of disapproval for President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, but gave even lower approval to Republicans in Congress.

We are for ever scanning our own faces for flaws and other people's faces for signs of disapproval.

Mr. Lazio appeared to win some converts, many of whom said they would choose him less for his ideals than for their disapproval of Mrs. Clinton.

Both Philips are most notable for their disapproval of the Olivers, though for different reasons.

"No reason was given for the disapproval," said Barbara Zigli, a spokeswoman for the consulate.

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