Gus Van Sant

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

American Director

Jessica Chastain

I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?

American Actress

Tristan Harris

We're all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest human motivations. But now our social approval is in the hands of tech companies.

American Activist

Kristin Scott Thomas

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

English Actress

Pauline Neville-Jones

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

British Public Servant

Steve Burton

We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.

American Actor

Simone Weil

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

French Philosopher

Jermaine Fowler

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

American Critic

Alexander Pope

English Poet

Use 'approve of' to express personal support or satisfaction about someone or something.

Personal Opinion

'Not approve of' strongly expresses personal disagreement or disapproval, often used politely.

Disapproval

When an organization 'approves' something, it means official permission is granted.

Official Agreement

In formal situations, actions or decisions are often pending until they 'receive approval'.

Awaiting Approval

Getting 'pre-approval' means an initial approval, subject to further confirmation.

Pre-approval

'Approve' in a legal sense implies a law or regulation has been officially accepted.

Legal Authority

Legal or formal 'approvals' often follow strict processes and documentation.

Formality

 our immune systems, drugs, and vaccines might be able to recognize them for longer after infection, and therefore protect us better. Still, we don’t know how long our bodies remain immune to different coronaviruses. There’s never been an approved treatment or vaccine for a coronavirus. We haven’t focused on treating the ones that cause colds,

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 across that is the totality line where you'll be able to see the Sun or the Sun be completely blocked by the moon that's right now these different phases require different types of protection so maybe we should do it a quicksave they do we'll do a demonstration don't do this unless you have some approved glasses on but I'm gonna

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 and so we have procedures in place that shreds that out, that says, when you find that, not if you find it, when you find it, because you're certain to find it, here's how you protect that. These are called minimization procedures. They're approved by the attorney general and constitutionally based. And so we protect those.

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 to create a stronger federal government. Thanks to compromises on issues like state representation, taxation power, and how to elect the president, their proposal gradually gained support. But the final text drafted in September still had to be approved by conventions held in the states.

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 that would be a task beyond hopeless. Instead, we would create an A.I. that uses its intelligence to learn what we value, and its motivation system is constructed in such a way that it is motivated to pursue our values or to perform actions that it predicts we would approve of.

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 to approve any bike helmet for sale, and this is the test they use. This is back to what I was telling you at the beginning about skull fracture. That's what this test is for. And that's an important thing to do. It can save your life, but it's not sufficient, I would say.

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 says that miracles do happen there have been thousands and thousands of cases looked at by the church many of which have been approved in which miracles are said to have occurred throughout every country of the world throughout all of history one of the

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 our economy will benefit our society will benefit and humanity's future will benefit people are usually approved as citizens through a simple online process but on rare occasions I do induct citizens personally

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 grandchildren with me too to accept the gavel and they said we're not sure that the rules allow that and I said well who's in charge of the rules and they said the speaker said well okay and I approve of that

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 bloom and they've brought their queen she approves of their new home the scarred orchid is testament to the