All of my parents' friends worked in public sector JOBS. The teachers at my SCHOOL were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not PART of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.

It's FEDERAL jurisdiction, so the federal GOVERNMENT can APPROVE pipelines.

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political FIT is on US, to applaud where we already APPROVE, and deride where we don't.

Trawl through the world of blogs and TWEETS, and you will find READERS complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of THOUGHT they find HARD WORK, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

So far, 44 States, or 88 PERCENT of the States, have enacted laws PROVIDING that marriage shall consist of a union between a MAN and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional AMENDMENT.

I've never been DIFFICULT to anybody or with anybody on a PICTURE. Especially when you're in that NICE status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to APPROVE directors. Because once you make that CHOICE, it's my belief that the director's boss.

We have TWO programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two DIFFERENT SYSTEMS of actually distributing bulletproof vests from the federal GOVERNMENT. Two SETS of applications, two different sets of personnel to approve those applications.

Not being PART of the BBC with 'Top GEAR' any more does PAIN me, because it's an ORGANISATION I APPROVE of.

Now, I cannot APPROVE ANYTHING the council has REJECTED, but I can REJECT anything the council has APPROVED.

Is it in our NATIONAL INTEREST to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to APPROVE Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

I am not going to APPROVE the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a theatrical screening when I cannot trust that it will EVER be seen in the format that it's INTENDED to be.

I look at all the ingredients of a FILM and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there HONOR and RESPECT in the WAY the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'

I always TELL the PARENTS, 'You don't have to approve of your CHILDREN; you just have to ACCEPT them for who they are.'

My mother had aspirations to BECOME a concert SINGER. Her Methodist Minister father didn't APPROVE of YOUNG girls leaving home until they married, so she had to PASS it up.

I ALWAYS loved my mother, FELT loved, but she was judgmental. Her FATHER in IRELAND didn't approve of WOMEN generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.