In public, the Pakistani government often denies its involvement, because the attacks are unpopular; in private, it approves them, in the hope that it will keep the United States off its back and perhaps throw the Taliban off balance.
An especially controversial aspect of the amendment allows the Legislature to establish caps on other types of lawsuits if it approves them by a three-fifths majority.
Mr Abbas, like the queen, is notionally head of the armed forces, but legally most of the forces answer to the Hamas-run interior ministry, and, in practice, their loyalties are divided among several chieftains.Mr Abbas can issue decrees, but only when parliament is not sitting; when it goes back into session, they become void unless it approves them.
Congress, wary of negotiated deals that open wider the doors to international commerce, surprises only when it approves them.
In fact, of the 18 requests for raises it received, Treasury approved them all: "In 2012, [Treasury] approved pay packages of $3 million or more for 54percentt of the 69 Top 25 employees at American International Group, Inc. ("AIG"), General Motors Corporation ("GM"), and Ally Financial Inc. Allyly," formerly General Motors Acceptance Corporation , Inc.
Should it be the voters who approved them in the first place or the politicians who will benefit from the change?
For example, if you tweet a celebrity they will not be able to see it, as you have not approved them to follow you.
(The government does not write the textbooks; it merely approves them for use).
When the commission recognized that virtually all of the union's candidates were white, it stopped approving them, leaving eight in limbo.
It remains hard to believe that anyone at Ballet Theater ever approved them.
