Sentence examples for making approving from inspiring English sources

When I handed him the Haggadah, President Obama, who famously stages his own seders at the White House (which is a very nice philo-Semitic thing to do, IMHO), spent a moment leafing through it and making approving noises.

The Suns wore "Los Suns" jerseys in a conference semifinal game to protest the law, and Lakers Coach Phil Jackson angered some Latino groups, who believe the law will lead to racial profiling, by making approving comments about it to ESPN.com this month.

In the letter, which the Guardian has seen, lawyers for Friends of the Earth said an obscure legal covenant from 1969 would make approving the scheme unlawful.

They stop and pirouette around the art deco room like prospective house buyers, make approving comments while whipping out their phones in unison like a pair of synchronized swimmers: snap, snap, snappedy, snap.

A list of manufacturers that make approved guards is available on the city's Web site (home2.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/win/window-guard-board-list.pdf).

That way, busy executives will be able to make, approve and check the status of orders instantly from wherever they happen to be.

The American government too has made approving noises.

Others among the 24 Fifa Executive Committee ("ex-co") members have, though, made approving noises.

The Americans made approving noises about the halt but seemed to suggest that more needed to be done to restart peace talks.

"There will be people making decisions, approving laws, who have no experience in these things," Ms. Reis said.

All authors have read the draft critically, to make contributions, and have approved the final text.