Sentence examples for ordered to approve from inspiring English sources

This created a legal veneer of deniability for high officials who wanted to pretend to themselves that in ordering torture with the approval of lawyers — and not just any lawyers, but the lawyers they ordered to approve it after firing or bureaucratically burying lawyers who disapproved of it — they were not ordering American troops and intelligence officers to commit crimes.

Following Trump's Executive Order to advance the pipeline, the Army Corps of Engineers has been ordered to approve the final easement to allow Energy Transfer Partners to complete the pipeline.

The prospects for the deal improved after the Ontario Securities Commission subsequently released lengthy draft regulations it wanted to implement in order to approve the transaction.

The government owes Americans a full investigation into the orders to approve torture, abuse and illegal, secret detention, as well as the twisted legal briefs that justified those policies.

The indictment alleged that, in order to approve mortgages for unqualified borrowers, the bank had systematically falsified loan-application documents, "inflating or exaggerating their assets, incomes, and job titles".

A spokesman for Mr. Hevesi said yesterday that because the comptroller had not yet received Mr. Giuliani's order to approve the contract, he was not sure what his next step would be.

"If you just look at the math, you'll see there is not a rational basis for taking slots from Oneworld at Heathrow in order to approve this deal," Mr. Arpey said.

In order to approve the buyout without the support of Mr. Icahn, Southeastern and T. Rowe Price, nearly every other share would have to be cast for the deal, Rotary Gallop concluded.