Word Finder - approved

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To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.

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Although we may disagree with it, we must nevertheless approve the sentence handed down by the court-martial.

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To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

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We approve the measure of the administration, for it is an excellent decision.

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To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

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(followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.

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Her mother never approves of any of her boyfriends. She thinks nobody is good enough for her little girl.

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To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.

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(English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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Having received approval.

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Employees' approved expense claims will be reimbursed by the 4th of the following month.

The plan was approved by Alexander II.

Despite being brothers, neither approved of what the other did.

He wouldn't have approved - of that she was certain.

What he would have approved of is our family life.

Would he have approved of you now, do you think?

He approved of me and of Uncle Pierre.

No doubt her father would have approved of Alex – the undisputed king of the castle.

In 1540 this pope approved of Loyolas foundation, and secured the powerful militia of the Jesuit order.

With its object he sympathized; yet he could not give official sanction to an armed attack on a friendly power, nor on the other hand could he forbid an action enthusiastically approved by public opinion.

He'd approved all their purchases and talked them out of a few bad ones during the morning.

On the dissolution which followed Lord Palmerston's defeat, Cobden became candidate for Huddersfield, but the voters of that town gave the preference to his opponent, who had supported the Russian War and approved of the proceedings at Canton.

After the Great Fire of 1666 he constructed a model for the rebuilding of the city, which was highly approved, although the design of Sir C. Wren was preferred.

These institutions were approved by the people, and gave a fair promise of justice.

He approved the gravamina, for he believed a thorough reform of the Church essential.

He knew that his every decision would be approved by them all with very few exceptions.

All children between the ages of eight and fourteen and those between the ages of fourteen and sixteen who cannot read and write English are required to attend either a public or an approved private school for the full term unless excused by the school board on account of physical or mental infirmity.

Wren apparently did not himself approve of this second design, for he got the king to give him permission to alter it as much as he liked, without showing models or drawings to any one, and the actual building bears little resemblance to the approved design, to which it is very superior in almost every possible point.

The emperor Marcian approved the doctrinal decrees of the council and enjoined silence in regard to theological questions.

In the British mercantile marine all ships (except those employed exclusively in trading between ports on the coasts of Scotland) are compelled to keep an official log book in a form approved by the Board of Trade.

He determined also to introduce into the Church many desirable reforms. His project was approved by an ecclesiastical council and was supported by the tsar, but it met with violent opposition from a large section of the clergy, and it alarmed the ignorant masses, who regarded any alterations in the ritual, however insignificant they might be, as heretical and very dangerous to salvation.

Carriers were forbidden to keep any accounts, records or memoranda other than those approved by the Commission.

The duty of a railway with deficient plant or facilities would seem to be to make up for their absence by moderating the speeds of its trains, but public sentiment in America appears so far to have approved, at least tacitly, the combination of imperfect railways and high speeds.

The final Payne-Aldrich Act was approved by the President on the 5th of August 1909, though in many respects it was not the measure he desired.

In December 1793 was issued the first number of the Vieux Cordelier, which was at first directed against the Hebertists and approved of by Robespierre, but which soon formulated Danton's idea of a committee of clemency.

On the other hand, he came to look upon the Old Testament prophets as approved by their antiquity, sanctity, mystery and prophecies to be interpreters of the truth.

At this court the members of the new church, together with six members of other approved churches, were admitted to citizenship; a magistrate, four.

As regards the tariff he advocated, as a temporary stop-gap, the passing of the emergency tariff, which had been vetoed by President Wilson, but which with slight alteration was approved by Mr. Harding on May 27 1921.

The President made it clear that he regarded the conference merely as a step in securing international understanding and good will; he advocated the convening of succeeding conferences as a possible means of securing an international association for the promotion of peace, and he approved the principle of substituting an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan regarding Far-Eastern problems, for the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty.

The basis of this growth is partly the story-telling instinct innate in all men, which loves to heighten an effect, sharpen a point or increase a contrast - the instinct which breathes in Icelandic sagas like that of Burnt Njal; partly the instinct of idolization, if it may be so called, which leads to the perversion into impossible greatness of an approved character, and has created, in this instance, the legendary figures of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon (qq.v.); partly the religious impulse, which counted nothing wonderful in a holy war, and imported miraculous elements even into the sober pages of the Gesta.

Berengar's belief was not shaken by their arguments and exhortations, and hearing that Lanfranc, the most celebrated theologian of that age, strongly approved the doctrine of Paschasius and condemned that of " Scotus " (really Ratramnus), he wrote to him a letter expressing his surprise and urging him to reconsider the question.

But when he renounced his promise to observe the constitutions his conduct was reprobated by the other bishops, although approved by the pope.

At the instance of Euric's son, Alaric II., an examination was made of the Roman laws in use among Romans in his dominions, and the resulting compilation was approved in 506 at an assembly at Aire, in Gascony, and is known as the Breviary of Alaric, and sometimes as the Liber Aniani, from the fact that the authentic copies bear the signature of the referendarius Anian.

These both approved his plan; the one promised to teach him without payment and the other to provide him with the necessaries of life.

While he did not reject any approved learning, he abhorred any intellectual culture that destroyed or lessened piety.

Railway, street railway, telegraph and telephone franchises can be granted only by the Executive Council with the approval of the governor, and none can be operative until it has been approved by the President of the United States.

The monks thereupon expelled the abbots by force, and their action was approved by the monastery of Vatopedi, the Greek parent house of St.

Clodius and Milo used bands of gladiators in their city riots, and this action on the part of the latter was approved by Cicero.

Slavery was far from being approved in principle by the most eminent of the fathers of the American Union.

This council, though condemning the book, refrained from condemning the author, and approved the order of Floris.

Any suggestions as to improvements in institutions must be approved by the majority of the governing body of that institution before they may be put into effect.

Every village or town district has a kind of mayor (mukhtar) appointed by election and approved by the official provincial authorities, and a " council of ancients " whose members are elected directly.

She was in Paris when the news of Napoleon's landing arrived and at once fled to Coppet, but a singular story, much discussed, is current of her having approved Napoleon's return.

Expenditures from the fund known as " The Internal Improvement Land Fund," derived from the sale of state lands, can be made only after the enactment for that purpose has been approved by the voters of the state; in 1881 the legislature, and in 1884 the popular vote, pledged the proceeds of this fund to the payment of Minnesota state railway adjustment bonds.

He heartily approved of the peace conference, which attempted to draw up a plan of reconciliation between the two sections, but whose failure made war inevitable.

But from a military point of view it was not at all cordially approved by Sir George White, and it was afterwards condemned by Lord Roberts.

It was approved by a committee of the diet and received the royal imprimatur in 1514, but was never published.

Moreover, in the event of the failure of a Habsburg heir, the diet reserved the right to revive the " ancient, approved and accepted custom and prerogative of the estates and orders in the matter of the election and coronation of their king."

A programme approved of by all the members of the committee was drawn up, and on the 3rd of November 1903, Count Istvan Tisza was appointed minister president to carry it out.

In harmony with the conditions of his age, he approved of absolute governments, though at the same time they must, he thought, be controlled by constitutional laws.

He was under the general influence of the mercantilist views, and approved of energetic governmental interference in industrial matters, of high taxes on foreign manufactures and low duties on raw materials and articles of food, and attached great importance to a dense population.