Oprah's Book Club resurrected sales of decades-old classics through simple cover redesigns and the imprimatur of the club's sticker.
So an editor needed to have at least the imprimatur of Rupert".
Egypt's successful economic liberalisation, too, bears his imprimatur.
If they are, then it may be without the official imprimatur of Belgrade, rather like last month's referendum rejecting anything to do with Kosovo.
Google has signalled it may impose more requirements on handset makers that rely on the so-called open Android.The company controls use of the name Android, Google apps and services, and access to its apps marketplace, and may withhold or withdraw its imprimatur.
This imprimatur is based on an index designed to capture the main factors the macroeconomic environment, public institutions and technology that will determine a country's economic prospects over the next few years.
Now that the deal, revamped in the light of French concerns, has the government's imprimatur, Alstom's cannot be long in coming.
Many hard-up Western governments now have a recipe for raising levies that are lucrative, wildly popular and come with the imprimatur of capitalism's policeman.
