The word
"approbation" means approval, praise, or consent to something.
Full definition
This decision suggested indifference to, if not
approbation of, the police abuse and attempted cover - up.
He wins a fair amount of
approbation for a man who works so hard to irritate his friends and enemies alike.
By approbation is meant that when Muhammad saw something done, or heard words uttered in his presence and did not object, such actions or words are approved.
In the end, whether you view the expansion of Relay and similar teacher - prep models
with approbation or alarm depends on whether you think of teaching as more an academic pursuit or more of a full - contact sport.
The six artists included here have not had extensive gallery or museum exposure to date, nor have they yet received
critical approbation.
Some victims of criticism will try to
win approbation by changing for the critic, but over time if it is not forthcoming, they will give up.
Papal approbation being no bad thing, I was delighted to learn that Pope Francis, in a homily a few weeks ago, had suggested that his congregants learn the date of their baptisms and celebrate it — which is precisely what I have been proposing to audiences around the country this past year, when discussing my book, Evangelical Catholicism.
«In this, as with other matters, the C of E, needs to be more committed to the value of truth than it is to seeking
pubic approbation.»
Because in the absence of any clear - cut and / or
coherent approbation by adult mentors they are having sex at ever younger ages.
We can not help feeling many of the things we feel, but we do have a choice as to whether to give this feeling our
moral approbation or not.
It's supposed to be very hip, and it
draws approbation from a crowd of similarly disaffected former church - goers who imagine, perhaps, that they're gaining friends and a hearing for the gospel among the irreligious, but for the life of me I can't see how it's any less self - righteous and self - serving than a pastor who draws a crowd by thumping his Bible and railing against «The Gay Agenda».
Once the integrity of the social fabric had been made to rest on key Christian beliefs (and the power of legitimate rulers on
ecclesiastical approbation), criticisms of Christian practice that spilled over into criticism of underlying interpretations of the gospels were easily taken as acts of treason against the state.
As Green found, it is barely possible for otherwise serious Western researchers to provide
grudging approbation for the public health benefits of traditional Christian witness.
And I still like it even though I understand and agree with your dislike of church «vision,» because this hymn isn't about a vision for the future of an organization, or a vision for any kind of institutionalized growth, but a vision of the constant presence of God in our lives, and in our very being, denying our need for material wealth and
human approbation for the true spiritual fulfillment that comes from God.
Can they see all the huge projects that President Mahama is commissioning all over the country and receiving
thunderous approbation from the beneficiaries?
While Governor Paterson's directive received
widespread approbation from same - sex marriage supporters, it was met with criticism from conservative legislators and from traditional marriage advocates, one of whom referred to the directive as Governor Paterson's «first major blunder.»
So, after having achieved
full approbation as a German practitioner, I decided to leave clinical medicine behind and to move onto an administrative path.
Like a well - designed but unyielding uniform, problematic historical references get swept up in the illogical, pulpy melodrama of the jungle - raised brawny specimen to confirm the ever beloved theme of «white is right» in a film with an alarmingly subconscious reiteration of
European approbation.
But the downside to this kind of
blanket approbation is that, because we know what to look for in an Alexander Payne movie, sometimes we might kid ourselves that we find things that aren't really there.
They easily absorb interest, stop the play — remove large fields of activity from too many hands, and thereby restrict socially important pursuits in which every normal person naturally likes to compete and in
which approbation and prestige yield their choicest rewards.
Barlow's work is anchored in an ongoing and thoroughly sculptural concern with volumes and their infinite pliability and, in the years since her retirement from teaching in 2009, has occupied ever - larger spaces, physically and symbolically, in terms of both public visibility and blue - chip art
world approbation.
«Well, we're appealing to their conscience and the integrity of their history, because they exist only because the people of New York have supported Cooper Union for all of these centuries,» he said to eager nods and
murmured approbations.
Therefore, it is not those who occasionally slip off that standard or even those who are continually slightly below that standard, who should be subject to society's
ultimate approbation through our criminal law.
But when a new emergence achieves
outsized approbation and applause, it can become a sacred cow of sorts, immune to fresh observation, criticism, or even real understanding of its essence and potential relevance.
On the Back of Civil Rights The last great liberal cause that now meets with almost
universal approbation was the civil - rights movement under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr..
As auteurist filmmakers rise in arthouse visibility and
critical approbation, some succumb to «Bono - it is».
She received the greatest, and most surprising,
approbation in Russia.
Because what we want for our books (or, at least, I do) is
approbation from a mainstream audience — people who typically read rather than get paid to review.
Here, however, Job faces a contradiction between the friends» argument that a covenantal relationship is «defined by humility and passive acceptance of the misfortunes God may use to discipline him,» and God's
approbation of Job for his other covenantal virtues, «including strong words and fierce resistance.»
Moreover, Christian realism will prevent self -
approbation for what we do; when we calculate the probable results of our actions in a rational manner, we are not at all likely to be proud of ourselves or to praise our works; rather, Christian realism leads to humility.
Just look at what Mormon children were being fed during that era: «We will first inquire into the results of
the approbation or displeasure of God upon a people, starting with the belief that a black skin is a mark of the curse of Heaven placed upon some portions of mankind.
If praise expresses gratitude and
approbation, punishment expresses resentment and reprobation.
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