Sentence examples for have okayed from inspiring English sources

The official told HuffPost that it was impossible the campaign would have okayed the hire, given that the abuser was fired for sexual harassment and his name would have surfaced in its job records.

His administration has okayed oil drilling in the dangerous waters of the Arctic and has emerged as the biggest backer of fracking.

If the FDA allows clinical trials, she warned, it would introduce "a regime of high-tech consumer eugenics" and represent "the first time a government body had okayed genetic changes for humans and their descendants".

Although the group's bassist has apparently okayed the movie's screenplay, he "doesn't want to" participate in the project, or even a possible new Queen album.

A routine inspection by the USDA stumbled upon sales records for faulty vaccine batches the agency hadn't okayed for shipment; inadvertently the records hadn't been buried under "9999".

The pilot studies impressed the Forest Service enough that the tech has been okayed for use on 5,000 acres in the Coconino National Forest and 3,800 acres in Kaibab National forest; it's part of the ongoing Four Forest Restoration Initiative.

He said it had all been okayed by the Pentagon, even by Donald Rumsfeld.

Every item had to be okayed with them before you spent the money.

However, in a bizarre move, the country has yet not okayed foreign investment in e-commerce despite allowing the same for offline retail operations of Wal-Mart and Tesco.

So before anyone can see the snake or handle the snake we need to have met the parents and had it okayed with them" (female, Perth).

If phone use was okayed on planes, the only "me time" we'd have left would be in tunnels and the middle of the ocean.