Yet,when Faulkner read the book after his editor cut it,he approved.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Then he observed, through time, after subjecting pigeons to this torture for some time -it might be not approved by--it's not really torture, it's like dieting or something, you've all lived through that, right?

随着时间流逝,他还观察,在这酷刑实施了一段时间后,也不能真的说是酷刑,其实有点像节食之类的,你们很多人也节食过,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

John Moody died in the 1950s, but after he died, Moody's and Standard & Poor did something that Moody would not have approved of -they started accepting fees from the people they rate; some people think that you shouldn't do that.

约翰·穆迪在20世纪50年代去世,他死后,穆迪公司和标准普尔做了一些,穆迪绝对不会允许的事情...,他们开始接受被评级者所缴纳的费用,有些人认为不应该这样做

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He approved of Roosevelt's civil service reforms.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

He approved the transfer of a pedophile priest, Peter Huellermann, to the Munich Archdiocese for psychotherapy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Just a few months ago, he approved the latest increase of more than 20,000 U.S.troops in Afghanistan, allowing for more aggressive operations against Taliban strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

When President Obama took office in January, there were about Within weeks, he approved a Pentagon request for an additional 21,000 combat and training troops, plus support units.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

He said new Security Council sanctions approved in June make clear that international law is not an empty promise.

VOA: special.2010.09.25

But after the attacks, 9 out of 10 Americans approved of the job he was doing, compared lately to about 1 in 4.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He lost. The Senate approved the bill to make Kansas a state where slavery was legal.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He said the people of California already had approved an anti-slavery state constitution.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He also had approved an increase in the supply of silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But he lost that battle. Virginia approved the Constitution in seventeen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

He often gave orders that were not approved by the president.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Lotfi Hajji is a journalist in Tunis. he says,"the Writers Union is more like a club for government-approved authors."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

When Irish voters approved the treaty earlier this month in a second referendum, he vowed to keep his word.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

I would have never left Liberia,". He says then-Nigerian-President Olusegun Obasanjo approved of his traveling overland to Chad in 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But he says there are challenges, including the difficulty in getting the plan approved by the United States Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Once he follows through on constitutional changes approved by the referendum, he will be allowed to run for another three-year term and run again after that if he likes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

He says getting the book approved was hindered by the fact that most former Khmer Rouge went unpunished and are now found at all levels of Cambodian society and politics.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

(sound) He says the recommendations on restricting Hajj participants have been approved and will be put into action, and hopefully, they will guarantee the safety of all those who want to perform their pilgrimage.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

He was referring to a resolution by the U.N.Human Rights Council last week which approved the Goldstone Report, accusing the Jewish state of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last December and January.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23