(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.
Unapproved
Definition:
(a.) Not approved.
(a.) Not proved.
Example Sentences:
(1) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(2) Unproven and unapproved diagnostic (e.g., leukocytotoxic test) and therapeutic techniques (e.g., sublinqual neutralization) are not recommended in food allergy management.
(3) The minicomputer provides access to both unapproved and approved reports on system terminals throughout the department.
(4) How many batteries charged by unapproved chargers are in the hold?” Mann asked.
(5) Chechen leader tells soldiers to fire on unapproved Russian troops in region Read more On the day I visited, a woman in a pink headscarf was lovingly showing a replica of Akhmad’s office to a group of teachers.
(6) The Jersey trust was a Furbs (funded unapproved retirement benefit scheme) to provide him with extra money.
(7) As in 2013, Efsa’s latest review of neonicotinoid pesticides has relied on an unapproved and entirely impractical regulatory standard,” he said.
(8) The first attempt, using an unapproved device on an emergency basis, failed after transplantation because of severe pulmonary edema and Pseudomonas pneumonia and the apparent transmission of a Pseudomonas infection from donor to recipient.
(9) Findings suggested that persons relatively more accepting of forcible date rape are less sure it really is rape, have more traditional attitudes toward women, are more self-sexually permissive (i.e., more tolerant of their own socially unapproved of sexual behavior, such as premarital and extramarital sex with friends or casual acquaintances), have less accurate sexual knowledge and, though a large majority blame the male, are slightly more inclined than others to blame society or the situation.
(10) A Ukip-unapproved grant has enabled the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra to give autumn concerts in Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester and London.
(11) (7) Unapproved drug use was not a major cause of residues.
(12) Chechen leader tells soldiers to fire on unapproved Russian troops in region Read more Moscow fought two wars against separatists in Chechnya in the decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and is now fighting an insurgency which aims to create an Islamist state in the broader North Caucasus area.
(13) Unapproved uses of naloxine include reversing the psychotomimetic effects of certain agonists-antagonists, terminating narcotic-induced convulsions and coma, reversing non-narcotic depression, diagnosing physical dependence, and treating narcotic addicts.
(14) The results support previous reports of sexual arousal in exhibitionists to nonerotic signals from females and are consistent with a hypothesis of exhibitionists displaying culturally unapproved sexual display signals as a consequence of cortical disinhibition.
(15) Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company sold the antidepressant Paxil for unapproved use on children and pushed Wellbutrin for sexual dysfunction and weight loss, uses for which it was not approved.
(16) The chain, which runs 35 of the government's flagship schools, was found by the EFA to have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpaye rs' money on "procedural irregularities" – including unapproved consultancy fees.
(17) The Yankees anticipate Rodriguez could be accused of using PEDs over multiple seasons, of recruiting other athletes for the clinic, of attempting to obstruct MLB's investigation, and of not being truthful with MLB in the past when he discussed his relationship with Dr Anthony Galea, who pleaded guilty two years ago to a US federal charge of bringing unapproved drugs from Canada into the United States.
(18) Most recently the Board has decided that candidates from unapproved programs who begin their training after June 30, 1976, will be ineligible for the Board examination.
(19) Extrapolation of data from other species to the ruminant or extrapolation of information from one drug to a related compound (such as prediction of residue and withdrawal data from an approved aminoglycoside, dihydrostreptomycin, to another unapproved drug, gentamicin) is fraught with difficulties.
(20) Residents cannot prescribe restricted antibiotics for unapproved indications unless they acquire the signature of an attending physician.