His colleagues say that he decided nothing without getting the thumbs-up from the media regulator, Ofcom.
Even the thumbs-up gesture is an obscene one in some parts of the world.
Drivers, mostly white and middle class, honked their horns and gave thumbs-up in support.
Cassidy had shaved his head clean to match Parmitano's look and got a thumbs-up from the Italian.
The top 10% of vote-getters are displayed each week as People's Picks, denoted with a thumbs-up icon.
Cashman, his leg crumpled from a sky diving mishap, played along, offering a thumbs-up from a wheelchair.
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He had gotten a thumbs-up at a physical just a few days before, and his mood was happy, upbeat.
He told the court he took a photograph of Mr Barker making a thumbs-up sign next to the girl.
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Ms. BARKER: He kind of gave a cautious thumbs-up to the whole meeting.
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People in supergalactic SUVs towing motorboats and small houses wave, shout, thumbs-up.
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In the next round, GenJam boots out the worst snatches of cacophony and replaces them with snatches that received the thumbs-up.
In the final stretch toward Owatonna my group was honked at and given the thumbs-up from a passing car on the highway.
The trio took it to Mulally, who gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up.
Mr Daft deserves a cautious thumbs-up for what he has done so far, but he knows the real test is about to begin.
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The good thing was that one of the FIA guys gave us a thumbs-up when we came past which was fantastic of him.
Still, even the most august New York critics set aside their quibbles and gave the play the proverbial thumbs-up, for directorial competence and conviction.
He leaned out to shake hands, kissed and patted the heads of infants passed to him by bodyguards, and often gave children the thumbs-up sign.
He repeatedly flashed a thumbs-up to onlookers taking pictures with iPhones.
Asked what he thought of Romney's speech, Adelson gave a thumbs-up.
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Ms. DeJesus, wearing a yellow, hooded sweatshirt and appearing somewhat unsteady on her feet, flashed a thumbs-up to the crowd and walked into the house without commenting.
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When asked whether he was in good health, Mr Gaddafi said that he was and gave a thumbs-up sign, the BBC's foreign editor, John Simpson, reports from Zintan.
Something about clicking on that blue-and-white thumbs-up icon somehow engenders just as strong a feeling of engagement among Millennials as owning more than one item from a brand.
Chances are, though, that Heron Tower will get the thumbs-up.
Technology reviewers gave the game a thumbs-up, except for one potentially fatal flaw: Users can only play with one another by physically passing the phone back and forth between them.
Most of us gauge our health by one or two measures: how we feel on a daily basis, or whether or not our doctor gives a thumbs-up at the annual checkup.
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