Sentences with phrase «rubber stamp approval»

Has Woodfibre LNG bought a rubber stamp approval for the project, along with other political favours including tax breaks, tax exemptions and the e-Drive subsidy?

And conversely, which ones are simply rubber stamping their approval to ever - increasing CEO pay in company after company.

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According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

The approval of pipelines is not something that should ever become a rubber - stamp process; but it also can not become an endless mountain of regulatory burden and unnecessary delays.

British Columbians can't help seeing this as a rubber - stamp approval that fails to meet the concerns we all have with this proposal,» Horgan said.

Also, during Obama's first term with 58 democratic senators, 2 mostly / somewhat democrat voting independents and 40 republicans, the senate version of the blue dog coalition ensured that Obama's 60 vote block had a measure of conservative voice and that it wasn't just a rubber stamp of approval for Obama.

And sure enough, when the time came around for the faculty to rubber - stamp the approval of the committee, that professor did not put the vote as an agenda item on this faculty board meeting.

Torches and pitchforks have been brandished by the automotive press to hunt out the witches over at Porsche AG that rubber - stamped this abomination's approval.

At the start of the year, most observers thought approval would be rubber - stamped by the State Department, which has jurisdiction over issuing the trans - border permit for the pipeline.

[130] Having regard to institutional fairness will elevate the standard for approval and send the message that courts will not rubber stamp settlements and turn a blind eye to what are in truth strike suits or suits where the defendant or the defendant's insurer pays a modest price for buying peace rather than paying a fair price to compensate the class members for their injuries.

For Litecoin, in particular, which is powered by blockchain, has a limited supply, is uncontrolled by anybody, and has a great potential to serve as a digital alternative to money, this is a rubber stamp of approval.