Sentences with phrase «rubber stamp of approval»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.