Sentence examples for this evening approved from inspiring English sources

The Senate this evening approved the bill 95 to 0, without debate.

Texas voters last night approved the creation of a water bank expected to fund nearly $30bn in water infrastructure projects in the coming decades.

Adopting the highest increases since 1996, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board last night approved 4percentt for one-year leases and 6 for two-year leases.

Moving quickly to settle civil claims that it had cheated auction buyers and sellers for years, the board of Sotheby's last night approved payment of its half of a $512 million settlement, the auction house announced last night.

The State Legislature late last night approved a bill to have the state government buy power from the generating companies at long-term rates and then sell it to the utilities, a measure some financial analysts described as too modest to avert a potentially far-reaching financial breakdown.

The U.S. House of Representatives last night approved $7.65 billion in new money to respond to the swine flu pandemic.

Almost three-quarters of the 3,957 union members who voted this morning approved the contract, effective Dec. 2, as the union's 24-member negotiating team had recommended.

After two days of fierce political sparring, the House early this morning approved a $29 billion emergency spending bill to pay for military operations, domestic security and aid to New York City.

It may not have been comparable to the Yankees buying Babe Ruth from the Red Sox, but Princeton University's trustees this morning approved the acquisition of a major league scholar of African-American studies who has been on the roster of rival Harvard for more than a decade.

A federal bankruptcy court judge this morning approved a final purchase price of $49.8 million for the assets of bankrupt Santa Ana publishing company Freedom Communications.

A Park Slope Community Education Council on Wednesday evening approved an elementary school rezoning proposal designed to relieve heavy overcrowding in the neighborhood's well-regarded public schools — a measure that council members called an imperfect but necessary solution.