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approve Anglais:

1. confirm

Statistics confirm that drinking is a serious problem.

The results confirmed that the average number of links in the chain was six.

Please confirm.

Please tell the reservation clerk, Mr Ichiro Takahashi, your credit card number to confirm your reservation.

We need you to confirm your attendance because places are limited.

First, try to confirm the timing by oscilloscope.

I would like to confirm the following for our meeting at our office on February 27.

Your weight confirms that you have eaten too much during the holidays.

Have they confirmed the new commencement date yet?

His wife confirmed that he'd left the house at 8.

I will confirm you that our meeting tomorrow is up to date.

So far the organizers haven't confirmed Bryan Adams on the festival's lineup.

To the end of the May you must confirm what means of transport you are going to the conference.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed a message about Turkish media.

He confirmed my fears.

2. approve

Some people don't approve of professional baseball.

Grant asked the Senate to approve the treaty.

It has not yet been decided whether to approve of your proposal.

All the delegates voted to approve it.

Who approves the Programme?

A famous Japanese poet does not approve of any fixed doctrine in haiku.

In asking voters to approve the new tax, the President appealed to reason.

We should be the last people on earth to approve of the use of atomic energy for military purposes.

Two hours and 20 minutes later, the plan was approved.

disapprove of

We do not have to approve Nord Stream; we might well approve the Amber pipeline. Unfortunately I cannot approve of the behaviour of the Burmese Government and the Burmese authorities.

“I can’t say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he’s my brother, and I just want him to know when this will ever end.

The teacher approved the topic of my essay

We had to wait months for the council to approve our plans to extend the house.

C.J. needs you to approve this. Anybody capable of thought must approve it.

3. accede

He was about to accede to the Confederation. The prince acceded to the throne. Samson acceded an office.

accede to any demands

4. accept

We accept checks.

The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.

Even if that's alright with you nobody else will accept it. I'll get shouted at afterwards so...

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.

Young people can recognize this about romantic love, but they find it hard to accept the same fierce element in parental affection.

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.

We accept making a reduction in price of 5% if this will help you to develop a new market for our products.

Truth is pure, but truth is painful. No sane, selfish person would ever accept things for what they are. Such is the masochism inherent in "truth".

Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

accept a small gift/they offered me a job and I accepted/The manager would not accept her resignation/ We don't accept credit cards. I've been accepted at Harvard./accept an invitation/accept advice, suggestion

Michelle accepted her friend’s offer of accommodation at her country house for the weekend.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church … a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

When I was a kid, I thought that if I died the world would just disappear. What a childish delusion! I just couldn't accept that the world could continue to exist without me.

5. disapprove

I disapprove of what you say.

Do you approve or disapprove of my project?

I know you disapprove of way I live my life, but I'm not going to change.

Anglais mot "approve"(disapprove) se produit dans des ensembles:

Opposites and Suffixes

6. of

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.

How nice of you!

Of course.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

A box of chocolates

We were sitting peacefully at dinner, when all of a sudden the lights went out.

To the best of my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.

Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Genes consist of a specific sequence of DNA.

Carpentry and bricklaying are examples of manual labor.

By the age of seven, he had already made his own bow and arrows.

When we started out in 2009, I was convinced that our store would become one of the best in the city.

I'm very particular about what kind of people I invite into my house.

If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman.

Something you should know about me is that I half of what I say is meaningless.

7. disapproval

I was hurt by his obvious disapproval of my friends.

He showed his disapproval by raising an eyebrow.

He shook his head in disapproval.

Jill replied with a hint of disapproval in her voice

She showed her disapproval by getting up and leaving when we started taking.

She had a strong look of disapproval on her face

They communicate disapproval by shaking their heads.

8. approval

Are planning or building approvals needed?

You must obtain approval before you can go.

If the quality of your product meets with our customer's approval, we will place regular orders.

After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.

When Tobita gives a plan his seal of approval, the client accepts it at first glance.

With your approval, I would like to offer him the job.

Please enclose a letter of approval from your head teacher.

Everybody gave their approval to the proposal.

OPP disapproval

With the President dead now, the new policies will have to await government approval.

People communicate approval by nodding, by clapping their hands, by smiling or laughing.

When a president or a governor acts wisely and lawfully, Americans express their approval by reelecting him and by supporting his political party.

There is no social approval for acts of vandalism.

He showed his approval by clapping his hands.

Aid measures can only be implemented after approval by the Commission. I don't need his approval. The project has now received approval from the government.

Anglais mot "approve"(approval) se produit dans des ensembles:

World formation

9. approve of

They approve of his plan.

My parents approve of my choice.

His parents don’t approve of what he does, but they can’t stop him.

I don't approve of parents smacking their children.

Her husband doesn't approve of smoking.

I don't approve of people rushing around carrying loaded revolvers.

They didn't approve of my being there

10. agree

We agree.

I agree on an emotional level, but on the pragmatic level I disagree.

If you agree to buy 3,000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount.

I was unwilling to agree to the proposal, but it seemed that I had no choice.

I agree with the ban in principle, but in practice it will be extremely difficult.

By signing a contract, you agree to certain terms and conditions.

Britain was in no hurry to agree on a peace treaty.

When we hear of a divorce we assume that it was caused by the inability of those two people to agree upon fundamentals.

While they don't agree, they continue to be friends.

It is impossible, you know, to make him agree.

Therefore, for any text you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 (fr).

Most students agree with the proposal, and made a list of arguments in favour of it.

He nodded as much as to say, I agree.

Certainly if someone is _that_ beautiful you'd draw back from approaching her. "Thought you'd agree."

If you would agree to answer some of the questions below, I would be extremely grateful.