(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.
Ratify
Definition:
(n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(2) When he ratified the Kyoto protocol, Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, described climate change as the greatest threat facing humanity.
(3) This is why legal scholars are repeatedly reminding us that until our constitution is ratified, the EU will continue to lack the political debate that must be at the centre of any mature democracy.
(4) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
(5) The Hollande team maintained that all topics were on the table and also held open the prospect that France could refuse to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact compelling debt and deficit reduction in the eurozone unless eurobonds were recognised as a possible tool.
(6) The UK-Colombia bilateral investment treaty is one of thousands criss-crossing the globe but is the first Britain will have ratified since 2009.
(7) In any case, EU procedures for ratifying most trade agreements are far more stringent than for ratifying a withdrawal agreement, which requires merely a qualified majority in the council and a majority in the European parliament.
(8) Studies in this country more than 20 years ago implicating ultra-violet light as a factor in the aetiology of malignant melanoma are being ratified by epidemiologic studies in the United States.
(9) Australia ratified the convention in 1951 and parts of it were incorporated into the Migration Act and as such were enforceable under Australian law.
(10) However, her relationship with Mr Bennet, so often seen as establishing and ratifying her status as the smartest and most interesting of the daughters, certainly complicates – if not pollutes – her standing as our narrator's ego ideal.
(11) Some have argued a vote should be held in parliament to ratify the result.
(12) Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal Read more The prime minister used her maiden speech at the United Nations in New York to say the UK remained determined to “play our part in the international effort against climate change … In a demonstration of our commitment to the agreement reached in Paris, the UK will start its domestic procedures to enable ratification of the Paris agreement and complete these before the end of the year,” she said.
(13) The majority of states have signed , but not all have ratified.
(14) Turnbull was later asked about the domestic challenges in signatory countries to ratifying the TPP.
(15) Ratified in 1980, the document is widely seen as obsolete and part of what she hopes to change with her "democratic revolution" – a plan she says could be financed by higher corporation taxes and which works within the boundaries of a constitutional democracy.
(16) That is why we are now starting the process of ratifying the landmark climate deal signed in Paris.” Greenpeace gave a qualified welcome to the announcement.
(17) Lugar's primary loss will ultimately remove from the Senate, which is responsible for ratifying international treaties, an influential advocate for a bipartisan foreign policy.
(18) If so, he would have to abdicate – as Baudouin of Belgium did for a day rather than ratify abortion .
(19) He pledged he would press the US Senate "immediately and aggressively" to ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty never fully endorsed by the Americans.
(20) There was even some talk of John Major using the device to ratify the Maastricht Treaty if the House of Commons would not pass the necessary resolution.