Even so, of the three contemporary objects of approval, it is the House of Windsor alone which, post-Diana, comes nearest to enjoying a free pass.
It is the motives rather than the consequences that are the objects of approval and disapproval.
The approval could be all of the same sort, but the objects of approval might be feelings of guilt in one case and feelings of sorrow in the other, even when these feelings are directed at one and the same object such as an action.
The "naira spray" was a particularly fashionable form of celebration, much seen during the oil boom of the 1970s: to honour a talented musician, dancer or a pretty girl, one of these wealthy young men would scatter a rain of currency that the object of their approval would then pick up off the floor.
Although again the object of general approval, reception in the United States was more mixed, unlike the predominantly positive reviews of 1972.
China has yet to complete a bilateral deal with Mexico, but the Mexican government has said it will not object to formal approval of China's membership.
They are giving the movies their own personal stamp of approval, and expressing their identity through the characters and virtual objects from the films.
Opponents of abortion have objected to federal approval of such research because the embryos, which they consider to be capable of life, are destroyed in the process.
The United States Supreme Court has declined to consider a case in which residents of a predominantly black neighborhood in Camden objected to the approval of an industrial plant as a case of "environmental racism".
Out with the old Stamp of approval?
"Lots of murmurs of approval".
