This body also certifies the competence of candidates for the presidency, the Assembly of Experts, and the Majles, and it has the power of approbatory supervision over elections.

Notwithstanding this approbatory description of Londoners' stoicism, after 7/7 Jamal leaves behind all the memories of identifying with his Indian self (Ajita) whom he loved for her color and not religion (Kureishi 2008: 320), and returns to his white wife and "mixed" son and his profession as a psychoanalyst in London.

In my former institution, tenure was granted after seven years, with approbatory status until year number six.

We predicted further that good major characters (protagonists) would most completely realize the approbatory tendencies in reader response and that bad major characters (antagonists) would most completely realize the aversive tendencies.

The reason for this approbatory remark is because in Osundare's art we confront a poetry of revolution and a revolution in poetry (Songs of the Marketplace vii).

(89) The nuns' revelations often indicate Christ's (or the saints') approbatory recognition of the prayers the nuns recited together, and they sometimes contain his (or their) commentaries on such prayers.

(65) While such comments may appear approbatory they must be seen in the context of a long history of racialising athletic ability, particularly given that the physical occupies a social space in strict opposition to the cerebral and scientific.

Appiah's "Introducing Maryse Conde," does as it promises, mingling a biography of the author from her birth to the present, an enthusiastic and approbatory bibliography, and a synthetic approach to the author's texts and person.

Even Smith's approbatory images of (a properly-controlled supply of) money--as the 'great wheel of circulation', and as a 'water pond' from which simultaneously 'a stream is continually running out' while another is 'continually running in' emphasise this conception of money as constitutive social process.

Brazoria County's progress in educational accessibility for African Americans is approbatory considering the climate of tremendous financial inequality at the time.

(Tocqueville's approbatory mention of the absence of capital cities in America, daft as it may seem to modern ears, is essentially an expression of this French politician's fear of political centralization in Paris, which he traced from the French Revolution, through the Napoleonic Empire, and down to the reign of Charles X.

The performances that Carroll sees rarely sound interesting, and his own comments on them, whether approbatory or otherwise, are usually mundane: 'The opportunity to see Marion Terry in H.