And, without the Bank's stamp of approval, the recent buoyancy of Zimbabwe's financial markets is unlikely to translate into long-term investments that will put Zimbabweans to work.
Spiridon Louis took more than two hours to stamp Greece's ownership on the world's greatest peacetime event.
Nor does it need the fund's stamp of approval to borrow at a decent price in international markets.
Also in October, Hong Kong enacted a 15% buyer's stamp duty, or BSD, against home purchases by foreigners.
The current French tax is even more limited than the U.K.'s stamp duty.
Readers are apparently quite vocal about great American writers who have yet to receive the Library of America's stamp of approval.
Regulators also imposed a seller's stamp duty on industrial property for the first time, responding to heated activity in that sector.
Tell me, would you read a book with Oprah's stamp on it?
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Both men said the initiative would still go forward, but it would be less likely to be widely adopted without the government's stamp of approval.
AirDefense was the first vendor to come out with an enterprise solution for monitoring wireless space based on the ubiquitous 802.11 standard, says Forrester's Stamp.
The Royal Mail boss also defended next week's stamp price rises.
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"The FTT can work, and the UK's stamp duty is a good example of that, " said Richard Asquith, the head of tax at accountancy firm TMF Group.
Hence 3TC's stamp of approval from the State Education Commission.
With those questions unanswered, consensus appears to be building around a more limited tax on share trades, similar in style to Britain's stamp duty, that could be expanded later.
Unlike companies, homeowners do not need LEED's stamp of approval to please employees or to show good corporate citizenship, notes Nathan Good, a green architect based in Portland, Oregon.
That said, a reform of Chile's stamp tax in 2002, which allowed the cost to be spread over several issues, appears to have given the commercial-paper market a healthy fillip.
He testified that after months of trying to develop an FBI-approved system to quickly recover the information, the White House found its solution Thursday morning and -- with the FBI's stamp of approval -- began the process that will soon turn out 25-30 tapes per day.
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The stamp was already valued at twenty cents by Scott's Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, and what I immediately realized was that its worth would only continue increasing (and so rapidly as to become my single most valuable possession) if Alvin was right and the worst happened.
Even with Suharto's personal stamp on the deal, some doubt his ability to carry out the reforms.
For example, in the past 20 months Florida's food stamp caseload has grown by more than a half million people, to 1.8 million.
Instead, Obama's administration has been coy--which suggests he's going to lend a U.S. stamp of legitimacy to the sordid doings of Durban II.
Steven gave Colton his ultimate "musician's musician" stamp of approval -- one he doesn't give out too often.
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Adam was fortunate that a late stamp on Sone Aluko's ankle was missed by the officials after the midfielder had cleared his lines.
In the dream, I was walking to Earl's with my stamp album clutched to my chest when someone shouted my name and began chasing me.
But as Wasps began to find their momentum, so Newcastle started to slip off tackles while the sin-binning of Oakes for a stamp on Lawrence Dallaglio's ankle did not help their cause.
The mainly female audience of business people attending the course nod violently when Mr Van Veen describes how most offices have a set of dominant males, who slap each other's backs, stamp their feet and draw themselves up tall.
You can see the beginnings of it with Path's auto-stamp of where you are when you open the app (unless you disable it, which most seem to do), but it isn't part of mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and foursquare.
It's not quite adulation to the level of making it on to a stamp or into a television drama, but it's certainly recognition.
Farms are bigger there, and more enticing than the postage-stamp smallholdings that spatter Poland's poor eastern parts that were once part of Russia.
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