Sentence examples for polite approval from inspiring English sources

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Initially only Pakistan's Mohammed Ali was enthusiastic; Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala was willing to go along but India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's U Nu, while both nodding polite approval of the idea, were skeptical of the feasibility and value of holding such a conference.

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Making politics polite again.

But Mr. Paladino repeatedly veered off the customary path of polite praise and unqualified approval.

I wrote him a polite letter to request his approval for a biography, to which he replied civilly, but in the negative.

The situation in the Middle East however is seen as more "complicated" and so polite opinion accepts Obama's silence not as the approval for Israel's actions that it certainly is, but as responsible statesmanship.

No discussion, no debate, at most a polite royal query or two: the formal granting of the sovereign's approval to business already done and dusted by ministers, committees, government departments.

Minor's initial, polite request for a three-day furlough to see his wife late last month seemed to meet the approval of the prison warden and the Bureau of Prisons staff overseeing his sentence.

With daddy hanging on her shoulder, nodding approval, Liz had the following to say about the Christmas underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: "There's no polite way to put this, but that kind of incompetence gets people killed".

Polite engagement?

"Very polite.

(Polite applause).

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