Those officers could only approve payments recommended by an independent committee.

So far, the Brooklyn court has approved payments of $150.6 million to 1,934 people who filed claims in the case.

I assumed she wanted to see who approved payment of the invoices.

We're thinking she wanted to see who had approved payment of those invoices.

I'm to decide if that was timely, and approve payment.

In some instances, these engineers are allowed to approve payments without any other review or oversight, the audit said.

Meanwhile, it approved payments of $2.4 billion, most of which will go to the Kuwait government to meet damage claims.

The federal agency says the state approved such payments; the state says it did not.

From 1940 to 1943 he worked as a civilian for the Navy, approving payments for contracts.

A former director of the state oil monopoly known as Pemex, he is charged with approving questionable payments to a labor union.