He wrote to the hospital seeking permission and then relied on nurses to ask each individual set of parents for approval. Around half of them said yes.

他向医院递交申请，而后通过护士征求每一对父母的同意，大约半数的受邀者同意了这一请求。

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I didn't ask for permission or approval.

我就没有去问别人的许可和赞同。

youdao

Benjamin: the note says you should call your manager first, and then tell him your reason, and then ask him for the approval.

本杰明：通知上说，你得先打电话给经理，然后告诉他原因，再申请得到他的允许。

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Sanaria is now preparing to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration for approval to begin federal testing of the vaccine.

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And what the proposal was was simply that Apple must ask for shareholder approval to issue preferred stock if it wished to do so in the future.

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He added that if Mr Osborne had decided that the UK should contribute "a fraction more" he would have had to ask for parliamentary approval, predicting that the government would have had difficulty persuading MPs to vote in favour of such a move.

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In fact, the first President Bush had to be persuaded to ask for formal congressional approval.

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