approving

How To Use approving In A Sentence

• The report criticized a former commissioner and two device division leaders for their role in approving Menaflex. FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred
• Some men maintained protective intergenerational boundaries by distancing themselves from disapproving parents.
• We usually hear from the eldest grandson regularly but I suspect we are being punished for not approving. Times, Sunday Times
• They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
• The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
• In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad. OPEN THREAD
• Practice is interpreted as repetition, and feedback consists mainly of approving reactions from the teacher.
• The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly. As Markets Quake, Clinton And Obama Grab Econo-Gurus
• The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
• One of the ambulance men leant over the body, clucking his tongue with a disapproving `tsk, tsk ". A DEATH IN TIME