(v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
(v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
(v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
(v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(2) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(4) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(5) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
(6) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
(7) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
(8) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(10) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(12) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(13) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(14) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(15) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(16) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(17) I am acutely aware that not all of you, by any stretch of the imagination, will approve of everything I have done.
(18) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(19) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(20) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
Concur
Definition:
(v. i.) To run together; to meet.
(v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
(v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
(v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(2) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
(3) These do not concur with clinical experience but the figures for overt resistance, at 39% and 69%, correspond with expected non-responders to these regimes.
(4) Key informants concurred that general health settings and multiservice agencies were the most appropriate for reaching Mexican Americans, and that mental health services must include bilingual and bicultural staff members.
(5) The surgical residents and a consultant surgeon at the hospital where she was treated concurred with the diagnosis of the referring medical officer.
(6) In combination with an extensive neuropsychological test battery, the three methods produce data that concur with the evaluation made of EEG recordings.
(7) Overall, the findings of ultrasonography concurred with those of urography in 144 cases (93%).
(8) These two sets of data concur to show that tumor growth rate or proliferation rate correlates with the probability of metastatic dissemination.
(9) Thomas appeared to concur: "We are not concerned with whether this is a good case or a bad case but whether what is charged amounts to a crime."
(10) We report here our experience with 16 such patients (13 males, 3 females) and concur with the original observers on the benign nature of this syndrome.
(11) Measurements conducted in plexiglas, animal muscle, kidney and brain concur with tabulated values and show a scatter from 5-15 percent from the mean; measurements made in perfused muscle and brain compare well with the nonperfused values.
(12) Maximal velocity of LSC measured at saturating intracellular lithium concentration was lower in the patients than in the controls; this may concur with previous reports on possible links between impaired activity of LSC and bipolar affective illness.
(13) Simon Pryor, natural environment director at the National Trust , concurred: “This report shows that government should take the time to get biodiversity offsetting right.
(14) The present results relative to cytotoxicity of macrophages derived from the CFC concur with and extend our previous findings indicating that the cytotoxic property of macrophages originates in its ancestral stem cell or CFC and that factors responsible for increasing the CFC population do not selectively stimulate precursor cells responsible for production of the cytotoxic macrophage.
(15) Finally, a report on the use of behaviour therapy for an autistic child is outlined in order to explore the psychobiological correlations between social behaviour and language, which concur with extensive experiments on brain stimulation.
(16) Assessing the time of injury based on clinical records concurred with prenatal origin in 32% of the children thought to have prenatal origin of hemiplegia by CT.
(17) While most physicians concur, they disagree as to the volume of lung needing to be resected to achieve the best survival results.
(18) These results concur with previously reported levels of insulin secretion in the perfused rat pancreas.
(19) This finding concurs with a previous report and raises the possibility that HLA-DR2 may be associated with Paget's disease of bone, probably by predisposing the bone cells to viral infection.
(20) As for the rib-diameter Homo concurs more with the Pongidae than with the Cercopithecidae.