In 2010, he grudgingly approved a similar settlement between the S.E.C. and Bank of America, calling it "half-baked justice at best".
It was the only way she could escape the Kremlin, she believed, and her father, preoccupied with the war, grudgingly approved.
EU finance ministers grudgingly approved the government's euro-zone stability programme this week but issued a stern warning that the soaring external deficit was a threat to sustained growth.Not for the first time.
Columbia did not play the gentleman to the ladies of Barnard College, which shortly before the larger institution decided to move to Morningside Heights had been grudgingly approved as a Columbia annex.
The same British ratings board that banned "Manhunt 2", a video game noted for its "sustained and cumulative casual sadism," has grudgingly approved the game for sale to anyone over 18 years of age.
When state security forces or their stooges roughed up leftwing protesters, or even killed a brilliant member of parliament, Grigoris Lambrakis, in 1963, Panayiotis would grudgingly approve, convinced that these were unpleasant but necessary actions.
What has gone so wrong that the Democratic Party is split asunder and Washington's pundits have, overnight, transformed Mr Clinton from political maestro to presidential lame duck?One answer is doubtless complacency: somehow, it was assumed, the votes would be there, just as they were in 1993 when Congress grudgingly approved the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The first €26bn of a package worth more than three times that will be disbursed within days after the government in Athens grudgingly approved the agreement at the end of a marathon debate, and Germany backed down on its opposition to rescuing Greece.
For much of the last two decades, the district grudgingly approved charters; it had to under state law, provided that a prospective charter properly completed a lengthy application process.
