Celebrities singing along to the car radio sounds like unlikely TV gold, but when Michelle Obama said she would take part in James Corden's Carpool Karaoke it was the ultimate seal of approval for what has become a global viral phenomenon.
Brands clamor to be stocked on Union's shelves — it's the ultimate seal of approval — while others are lucky enough to make products in collaboration with the store.
The Irish centre's first words when he came into the dressing-room were: "Man, how good was Jonathan Davies?" It is pretty much the ultimate seal of approval that any centre can receive.
Finishing out my senior year with at least solid grades would be the ultimate seal of accomplishment.
Had he won, and received the French cultural establishment's ultimate seal of approval, the award might, in a way, have tarnished the book's true accomplishments.
Mathew Brown, a Hyde senior, provided the ultimate seal of approval, saying, "Those Samoans are ballers," as a New Zealand player of Samoan descent took off down the field.
And in perhaps the ultimate seal of approval, a friend's Italian-American mother from New Jersey makes her famous baked ziti using... the recipe from The Sopranos Family Cookbook.
For that, they say, he needs above all to be accepted by the Americans, who still wield the ultimate seal of political approval here.
And the ultimate seal came four years ago with the George Woolf Award - chosen from among their number by the jockeys themselves, for career and character that reflect most honourably on their calling.
The celebrities are increasing in number, including Snoop Dogg, Jamie Oliver and Justin Bieber – whose presence is often seen as the ultimate seal of pop-star approval for a buzzy social service (see also: Twitter, Tumblr).
