Unless you run as an independent, you must get your party's imprimatur before heading into the general election.
If you were a Pakistani-American experimental filmmaker, say, completing a video exhibition pondering the digital optics of military surveillance and the U.S. drone program, would you necessarily want the N.E.A.'s resources or imprimatur for your work?
The imprimatur of importance is your own, not an international auction house's.
"Frankly," Mr. Roach wrote, "this strikes us as a disingenuous fig leaf intended to put the imprimatur of D.O.I. on your arrangement".
(Harmony Korine's "Julien Donkey-Boy," released last year to widespread critical perplexity, was made according to dogmatic tenets but without the group's imprimatur.) Knowing this should not necessarily influence your response to the film; you pay your money to watch a movie, not a theory, and "Mifune" is, by any standard, a pretty good movie.
No, unless you make the claim, as the filmmakers have done, that your version of "history's greatest manhunt" carries the imprimatur of journalistic accuracy — durable enough to become the art of record.
You will be judged by your peers and, if you succeed, you will have the imprimatur of public support.
When one of Khama and Williams's sons visited the set, he delivered the ultimate imprimatur: "It's not every day you see your mother and father come back to life".
A fancy Web site promoting your independent labor of love is all well and good, but the imprimatur of MoMA is an entirely different level of promotion.
The bike won't need a tuneup, and it will have the shop's imprimatur when you try to sell it at the end of your visit.
