Sentence examples for was waved through from inspiring English sources

The expenses claim was waved through without a murmur.

The public purse gets tighter and this vision – supposedly Osborne's – was waved through by Cameron.

Ofcom was taken aback by Channel 4's hostility to the way the merger of ITV's advertising sales houses was waved through by the Competition Commission last autumn.

A £5.5bn redevelopment of Liverpool's docklands that will dramatically alter the Merseyside skyline is set to begin after it was waved through by the government, despite warnings that it puts in jeopardy the city's prized Unesco world heritage site status.

The HBOS takeover, which was waved through by Labour at the height of the banking crisis despite competition concerns, is continuing to knock huge holes in the enlarged bank's results.

Amesbury was shown up again on nine minutes when, after Ofisa Treviranus was waved through by Marc Jones on halfway, the prop Halani Aulika escaped from the wing on a 25-metre run for his ninth try of the season in all competitions.

Officials stressed that only patients in imminent danger of dying were being waved through during the shutdown.

But the auditors found that hundreds of thousands of people were still being waved through by customs officers without being referred for a secondary inspection.

Although the proposal includes a derisory 16 per cent "affordable" housing, it seems to have been waved through like an afterthought in the wake of the wonderful cruise ships.

Critics had also called for foreign takeovers to be subject to a public interest test before being waved through, but the panel rejected this.

Yet his already slender chances of being waved through without a competition commission investigation would shrink to nothing at all if rival UK banks enter the fray".