This season's Goodness has earned the approval of the CFDA Health Initiative, which Wiedemann says, "has started a very important dialogue within the industry about healthy eating".
Since he was sent to take over Chrysler from its American executives in November 2000, he has earned the approval of both Wall Street and the United Auto Workers union.
In any case, to focus on whether or not Johnson has earned the approval of either the political or cultural establishments is to miss the point.
Andrew M. Cuomo, who has earned high approval ratings for his performance as the state's attorney general and is the unchallenged Democratic candidate for governor, inspires in some voters fond wishes rather than actual hope.
In Suffolk County, for example, the county executive, Steve Levy, has earned sky-high approval ratings in part for his responses to illegal immigration, such as shutting down overcrowded boarding houses for day laborers and, not incidentally, cracking down on unlicensed drivers.
For much of the last decade, American business has been playing a defensive game and has earned increasingly lower approval ratings.
It's the kind of movie critics love – Mudbound's black people suffering at the hands of evil white people has earned a 97percentt approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes – an awards magnet during Oscar season.
The digital music company Spotify, which uses free song streams to lure people to paid subscriptions, has earned the music industry's approval by making money from listeners who might otherwise use their computers to download songs illegally.
It's an intimate, inquiring, moving film, directed by the Oscar-winning documentary-maker Davis Guggenheim, who directed An Inconvenient Truth, and it has earned a chorus of celebrity approval across the pond, where it opened earlier this month.
