"approve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In an important advance in the Government's effort to cut its deficit and reduce market pressures that have humbled the economy, the lower house of Congress tonight decisively approved a change in social security benefits for civil servants after four earlier attempts had been defeated.
- Following the Senate's lead, the House today decisively approved a bill to field a system to defend the country against a limited long-range missile attack.
- Members of the New York Times unit of the Newspaper Guild of New York decisively approved a new contract with the newspaper yesterday that is to run through the year 2000, guild officials said last night.
- In this period of marked fiscal constraint and diminished public resources, voters decisively approved all five.
- Proposition 187, the anti-illegal immigration initiative approved decisively by California voters on Tuesday, may well turn out to be a classic case of unintended consequences.
- The House Judiciary Committee decisively approved a bill today that would establish a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns, opening the way for the full House to act on the measure in about two weeks.
- As had been predicted, the Senate today decisively approved the increase in the financial transactions levy, by a 64-to-12 vote.
- The House of Representatives decisively approved a bill today that would establish a seven-day waiting period on handgun purchases, beating back a vigorous challenge by opponents of gun control who said the measure would punish law-abiding gunowners.
- The Piétrasanta report is further evidence of this since it decisively approves the action we have carried out throughout this time and encourages us to move forward.
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