As Mr. Bloomberg repeats the ritual of seeking approval from the state for his chancellor-in-waiting — this time, Cathleen P. Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines — his case may be even more strained.
GPs stated that they use rituals with seemingly mutual approval and that these rituals emerge gradually after many consultations.
But the crowd at the "March for Life," an annual ritual here, roared in approval when Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, announced the White House move.
Since then, it has involved circumcision for men and, for both sexes, Jewish study, rabbinic approval and immersion in a ritual bath.
Some bishops had already been permitting their priests to perform same-sex blessings in recent years, without the larger church's formal approval, using homemade liturgies and rituals.
That's a procedural ritual that involves Bercow receiving the Queen's approval from the royal commission in the Lords.
Given this, adherence to the tenets and rituals of the faith is demanded, and shown approval by the family, wider community, and (it is hoped) the almighty.
Mr. Girard carries on the ritual of the Victorian circle, with Mr. Wooster's approval, in a mischievous nod to 19th-century gardeners who loved to set out their tropical bedding plants in garish patterns on the lawn.
Eventually, the song's redundancy comes to suggest a ritual spritzing of Chanel perfume, like a national seal of approval, on packages stamped for export from Paris.
The approval process for charters has taken on a ritual-like quality in the nation's second-largest school system. .
GPs describe three different models to do this; mutual alliance characterized by ritual care (e.g. regular physical examination, regular doctor visits) with approval of the patient and the doctor, ambivalent alliance characterized by ritual care without approval of the doctor and non-alliance characterized by cutting off all reasons for encounter in which symptoms are not of somatic origin.
