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American Express, Professor Culnan said approvingly, "views privacy as a source of competitive advantage" -- the sort of thing that makes consumers choose one company over another.
Even before the Bush presidency, science was viewed with reserve or lack of interest -- sometimes approvingly, sometimes disapprovingly -- but almost never with an embrace of support and appreciation.
The ad has been viewed some 3.3 million times on YouTube, though not in all cases approvingly.
He tells the story of Coltrane's musical transformations around 1965, and, demeaning the recording of "Offering," cites approvingly Jones's view of them: Well, the sleeve notes by Ashley Kahn are extremely informative, but I would question the assumption that there is something "spiritual" about this last phase of Trane's musical journey.
Romney at one point approvingly quoted a view of his father – former Republican presidential candidate George Romney: "Mitt, never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage" – the implication being that only the wealthy should get involved in politics.
3 The dissent quotes approvingly the ungarnished policy view that " 'punishing first offenders [i.e., repeat offenders who have not yet been convicted of an earlier offense] with twenty five year sentences does not deter crime as much as it ruins lives.' " Post, at 10, n. 10 (quoting United States v. Jones, 965 F. 2d 1507, 1521 (CA8 1992)).
"Captain Boycott" is its title and it opened at the Winter Garden yesterday.Let J. Parnell Thomas view it closely, for it hotly and approvingly reveals a case of farmer rebellion against the landed and privileged class.
In that volume Mr. Hanson wrote approvingly of the ancient Greek view of war as "terrible but innate to civilization -- and not always unjust or amoral if it is waged for good causes to destroy evil and save the innocent".
Upstairs is Peter's study and his library; there were several histories of the First World War, and a pair of books by Noam Chomsky, whose acid views on American foreign policy Griffin referred to approvingly several times as we talked.
In Rossiter's blunt assessment, the dominant American view during what historians now call the Progressive Era (or, less approvingly , the "gilded age") was that "classical music was for sissies and women".
Senior officials talk approvingly of the "end of ideological foreign policy" and say their views are listened to, even solicited, on dealings with Iran or Syria.
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The phrase "viewed approvingly" functions as an adverbial phrase modifying a verb, typically indicating the manner in which something is viewed or regarded. As Ludwig AI confirms, its usage is grammatically correct.
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