(n.) A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its introduction had caused a huge stir: it was the first time Jonathan Ive , formerly in charge of hardware design at Apple, had given his imprimatur to software.
(2) However, the report does put an official imprimatur on some aspects of the disaster that have been unofficially surmised up to now, and fills in some of the details of the last minutes of MH17.
(3) The general's leather flight jacket from the second world war (less often worn than the jacket whose style still carries the Eisenhower imprimatur), his 1953 Bausch and Lomb binoculars, and his gold Rolex watch – the 150,000th ever made and presented to him by the company in 1951 – are also up for sale.
(4) In particular, Alston has given the UN's imprimatur to the authenticity of video footage apparently showing summary executions of prisoners in January 2009 in the final stages of the civil war.
(5) "We are careful not to allow it to be seen as seeking the [prince's] imprimatur."
(6) The result is that many of Trump’s cabinet picks bear the imprimatur of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
(7) The uniquely parsimonious approach to treatment of end-stage renal disease patients in the U.K. was initially developed under the imprimatur of the nation's medical elite and sanctioned by the central government.
(8) The British Museum seems symbolically apt, and the idea already has the imprimatur of the thinktank Civitas, which proposed that the museum could head north along with the Royal Opera House and the House of Lords .
(9) It was a crucial semantic shift: the “illegal” construction gave the government the imprimatur, almost the obligation, to enact more punitive policies against asylum seekers.
(10) But the report concludes: "It will be a tough challenge to attract the Scotsie 100 companies away from the large liquid international London exchange on which they are already listed along with their FTSE imprimatur.
(11) McDonnell was charged with accepting over $177,000 in gifts and loans from Star Scientific Inc CEO Johnnie Williams, but he repaid over $124,000, and his defense has offered a lot to distract from the idea that Williams expected McDonnell to dispense his dietary supplement Anatabloc to state employees – or at least to give it some official government imprimatur.
(12) At particular issue are undisclosed legal memorandums, written in secret at the Justice Department, that gave torture the imprimatur of legality.
(13) There never should have been any limitations on people of the same sex having contracts, but I do object to the state putting its imprimatur to the specialness of marriage on something that’s different from what most people have defined as marriage for most of history,” Paul told Boston Herald radio.
(14) John Osborne: a natural dissenter who changed the face of British theatre Read more Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
(15) The dismantling of the Iraqi army, de-Ba’athification and the Anglo-American imprimatur to Shia supremacism provoked the formation in Mesopotamia of al-Qaida, Isis’s precursor .
(16) A Penguin editor suggested turning it into a book and, no doubt mindful of what a ministerial imprimatur might do for sales, put her in touch with Gove and Steve Hilton, David Cameron's aide.
(17) His death could be detrimental to peace talks, Gopal said, “because Mullah Omar’s imprimatur was important in getting people to the table.” He added: “This could actually hasten the fragmentation of the Taliban, though it’s too early to say.” The announcement also comes at a time when Pakistan has put rare pressure on the Taliban to accept Ghani’s offer to restart peace talks.
(18) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
(19) Many of the abuses in Russia – against gay rights, against the environment, against animals – came after the Olympic contract, almost as if Russian leaders were emboldened by the Olympic imprimatur and financing to not only continue abuses, but create new ones.
(20) The Chinese factory workers sewing Chanel handbags can make the same bags, after hours, but they'll be low-rent knockoffs without the interlocking "C"s. The same goes for an assistant who painted, without the master's imprimatur, Damien Hirst's dots.
Official
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
(n.) Discharging an office or function.
(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
(14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.