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• n  official approval
• n  official recognition or approval

• After months of debating, the board voted unanimously for the approbation of the plan.
• The action of the commandos during 26/11 met with approbation from the cheering crowds.
• Charles Platiau Reuters The renewed approbation must seem refreshing to the 77-year-old ex-president, who has spent the past 23 months watching his successor and long-time .

• disapprobation

News & Articles

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• Who Really Ignited Obama's Move Against Patent Trolls?
  When earlier this month the Obama Administration proposed new steps to protect business from patent trolls ? entities that hold patents for no other reason than to sue companies, often frivolously, for allegedly infringing them ? the move was greeted with widespread approbation.
  June 21, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Newsweek
  Meeting with top members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, Biden warned that he plans to use "the moral approbation of this office" to make sure the huge fund of stimulus money is put to use creating jobs and rebuilding American infrastructure.
• Amitabh Bachchan in Reuters
  My conscience is profoundly unsettled at the moment and there seems to be a moral disjuncture between the suffering of these students and my own approbation,Bachchan, 66, wrote in a letter to the university which he posted on his blog....
• John Bolton in International Herald Tribune
  The North's apparent nuclear test, Bolton said, "had to have been humiliating to China. After all of the efforts they've made over the years to protect North Korea from international approbation, for the North Koreans in the face of all that to test...