Sentence examples for formal blessing from inspiring English sources

But there is nothing stopping it from asking for their formal blessing for a revised target.

Mr Powell made his comments at a meeting where the FCC gave its formal blessing to BPL.

Unfortunately, Mr Gul announced his candidacy without getting the formal blessing of Mr Erbakan, who for all his legal tangles continues to run Virtue from behind the scenes.

No formal blessing was bestowed on Armstrong by David Jason, despite Jason happening to be working in the same Soho studio complex one day.

The last visit by an American premier, in 2006, saw George W Bush controversially announce America's formal blessing for India's civil nuclear power programme.

Over the past few months, council members, working individually or in groups, have taken positions on a number of issues, some of which do not have the formal blessing of the speaker.

Because China and Russia, whose governments roundly criticised America for acting unilaterally, without formal UN blessing, to disarm Iraq, have been pushing America to deal with North Korea's weapons of mass destruction ambitions, well, unilaterally and without formal UN blessing.

Last February's recognition by many Western countries of Kosovo's independence from Serbia again lacked formal UN blessing (thanks to Russia's threatened veto).

Condoleezza Rice – national security adviser In July 2002, the month before Yoo and Bybee provided formal legal blessing from the Justice Department, Rice gave permission to the CIA to waterboard Abu Zubaydah.

Should geoengineering only proceed with a formal treaty and the blessing of the UN?

Though he never had any formal training, he was blessed with a remarkable memory, and his musical knowledge was already considerable by the time he made his first professional recordings in 1954 at the age of 19.