Sentence examples for managed to approve from inspiring English sources

Mr Lobo, anxious to move on and restore normal relations with the rest of the world, has managed to approve an amnesty to cover the political crimes.

NEW DELHI After its monsoon session collapsed without a single law being passed, India's Parliament managed to approve a few landmark bills in its just-concluded winter session, but not without wasting most of its time.

Mr. Resch said the decision was important given that while the bureau managed to approve a considerable number of oil and gas leases on public land, it "had yet to lease a single acre of land to the solar industry".

Amid the government shutdown, the House did manage to approve some bills -- including one pretty lame one.

The commission included 17 theologians and bishops who ranged from liberal to conservative, but who managed to unanimously approve their 88-page report, called the Windsor report.

"I was wondering how we managed to get approved for as much as we did," she said.

And while the coupe didn't attract crowds, it managed to draw approving looks and questions from the citizenry, a positive sign for any Accord.

Thanks to the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed its own pathway for pharmaceutical research, discovering a number of drugs that even today have never managed to get approved elsewhere.

This month Los Angeles voters — at least the sliver of the electorate that managed to vote — approved two ballot measures that moved the date of city elections from the spring of odd-numbered years to the November of even-numbered ones.

On January 20th, it managed to persuade Congress to approve (at the fifth time of asking) an important pensions reform.

For a start, Mr Bush managed to get Congress to approve what is known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).