Obama's complimentary remarks about Medicare for all, while not exactly a dramatic departure from his previous comments, represent the most significant establishment imprimatur for a policy that most mainstream elected Democrats viewed as fringe as recently as three years ago.
The mere existence of this movie and Mr. Lucas's imprimatur could be seen as significant morale boosters for African-American men whose World War II service still remains woefully underrecognized.
But the stamping of the White House's imprimatur on the plans is significant, both for the signal it sends to the rest of the world and for its signal to the US Senate, where the haggling over emissions continues.
But investigators for the House government reform committee, in a final report in 2002, concluded that Mr. Holder's input on Jan . 19 , 2001had a "significant impact" in giving the Justice Department's imprimatur, even though no formal review was conducted by the department's pardon office.
"Notwithstanding the I.M.F.'s imprimatur, the renminbi will not become a significant reserve currency unless China has better-developed and well-regulated financial markets," Mr. Prasad added.
This does not mean that universities cannot invite frankly partisan speakers, only that when they do so it should be in order to introduce students and faculty to significant points of view, and not in order to put the university imprimatur on any one of them.
One is loath to add one's tinny Internet voice to the veritable parade of luminaries who have already praised this work: the back cover of Engine Empire bears the imprint and imprimatur of Jorie Graham, D.A. Powell, Matthea Harvey, and, perhaps most compellingly, David Mitchell, whose generationally-significant novel Cloud Atlas will soon grace movie screens from coast to coast.
Echoing a measure that Congress passed just days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it carries significant legal and public policy implications for Mr. Bush, and potentially his successor, to claim the imprimatur of Congress to use the tools of war, including detention, interrogation and surveillance, against the enemy, legal and political analysts say.
This lofty imprimatur covers the homely and the grand: preschool art classes on the lawns as well as significant public monuments like Brian Tolle's Irish Hunger Memorial and the exquisite whimsy of Tom Otterness's fairy-tale-like creatures in Rockefeller Park, near Stuyvesant High School.
