7 Metaphors for approval

Of how much value such approval would be in case there turned out to be a discrepancy between the compilation and the original statute, I leave to the lawyers to judge.

He couples his offer with most liberal and exalted sentiments, and with the opinions of distinguished men, whose approval is praise.

A responsiveness that in maturity made them favorites with every one who knew them, and prompted the tactful ways that convinced each admirer that his approval was the last seal to their satisfaction in the fame they had won.

Their enthusiastic approval of the justice of our cause should be to us a great assurance.

His approval, his interest in a man, were the all-absorbing object, the all-sufficient reward; the one punishment feared was dismissal, always inflicted with courtesy and tact, from the honour and the joy of serving under him: Adoré de ses élèves, M. Dupanloup n'était pas toujours agréable à ces collaborateurs.

Not only actual satisfaction of the desire but also imagined satisfaction is covered by "approbation"; but this approval is still simply a feeling of some individual person.

I shall always court yours; your approval is dearer to me than anything in the whole world.

7 Metaphors for  approval