go-aheads AmE dialect

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To whom does a network go for technical go-aheads, or simple cooperation?

But church officials say their own plan is “shovel ready,” awaiting formal go-aheads from city and state financing agencies.

He had received a number of go-aheads from control but had not been in position to make use of them.

Docking lights framing the outer door ran through a series of checks and go-aheads.

That includes recent go-aheads on building three advanced attack Dolphin class submarines for Israel.

The list of 22 doomed buildings - for which the courts have given go-aheads for demolition - dates back to September.

Conversely, people with initiative wait endlessly for go-aheads and when approval finally comes are subjected to endless second-guessing.

With computerized go-aheads, hundreds of underground nuclear blasts rocked the test site in Nevada, a desolate expanse of desert bigger than Rhode Island.

In the South Pacific they’re called go-aheads, in South Africa they’re slip-slops and in Australia they’re thongs.

It took five more years of pushing and prodding to get city and state go-aheads for the rest of the purchases, many of which were netted in various entanglements.

Beyond 2010, the outlook for LNG is uncertain because of substantial delays in projects, a slowdown in project go-aheads, tougher upstream supply terms and spiraling costs, Stoppard said.

Top executives of Weston Incorporated of West Chester, Pa., are sorting through lists of stop orders, partial shutdowns, and emergency go-aheads to decide how many more employees to furlough.

An active drilling program, the possibility of development go-aheads, new gas contracts and speculation regarding a possible merger between the HJV and East Spar JV's should maintain interest in the short term.