So was the judge who rubber-stamped the other recent secessions.
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Congressional committees rubber-stamped State Department requests, and the gravy train continued.
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Under the Trump administration, FERC has mostly rubber-stamped large energy projects.
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That decision was rubber-stamped by parliament in March of last year.
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Take this as a rubber-stamped, fully ratified, officially sanctioned Premier League prediction.
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The DOJ then rubber stamped the deal against the advice of many agency staffers.
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This time Twitter rubber-stamped the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally organizer Jason Kessler.
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The courts have rubber-stamped bulk bans on dissident websites and social media accounts.
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Those applying for the permanent resident visas will essentially have their applications rubber-stamped.
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"When they are reviewed, [they are] commonly rubber-stamped by other corrections officials," it says.
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It remains to be seen whether it will be rubber-stamped by the European Commission.
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The decision will go before UEFA's Executive Committee to be rubber-stamped later on Tuesday.
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With the vote, the I.O.C.'s membership rubber-stamped a recommendation from its executive board.
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In every recent cycle, delegates merely rubber-stamped the results of the primaries and caucuses.
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For decades, powerful institutional investors automatically rubber-stamped the decisions of corporate management and boards.
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The Japanese government, the plaintiffs say, rubber-stamped the project without a proper environmental assessment.
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They just took Dakota Access' promise that the risks were low and they rubber-stamped them.
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They rubber-stamped the text within minutes of sitting down, and applauded themselves for doing so.
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The electorate may have rubber-stamped those victories, but they played no part in formulating them.
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He validated and rubber-stamped a grandiloquent fascist who is supported by a former grand wizard.
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And tech giant PayPal has canceled a large-scale investment plan after the legislation was rubber stamped.
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They will now have to be rubber-stamped by EU countries and the assembly before becoming law.
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As long as the medical professionals have no reservations, the license is more or less rubber-stamped.
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Schlotthauer said she believed that Aetna's medical directors "rubber-stamped" the denials without doing their due diligence.
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But his history is off: The embassy sale was rubber-stamped by George W. Bush on Oct.
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The other board members are named by the superior council and then rubber-stamped by the government.
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The draft, which still needs to be rubber-stamped by other ministries, is now in the Chancellery.
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Worse, it willingly rubber-stamped the single largest, sanctioned expansion of executive power and corruption in American history.
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This would then be rubber-stamped by the U.N. Security Council and pave the way for national elections.
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He doesn't just get to have his nominations rubber stamped, and he has nominated some very disturbing individuals.
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There are two main candidates in the race, both of whom are rubber-stamped by the mullahs in Tehran.
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They have used Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts to get their requests rubber-stamped and then sequestered as secret.
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The legislation was passed by Parliament on Tuesday and is waiting to be rubber-stamped into law by Royal Assent.
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Her previous stint in that eminent position had always felt hollow because she never rubber-stamped it with a major.
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It had rubber-stamped phony intelligence about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, enabling the catastrophic war in Iraq.
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The bill was largely negotiated in leaders' offices and rubber-stamped in committee, a process that has Democrats increasingly frustrated.
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The choice by the party organizations, however, may need to be rubber stamped by Morales himself, currently exiled in Argentina.
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And, of course, the people who say, wait a second, I don&apost want the court to just be rubber-stamped.
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The nonprofit he volunteers for, the Big Bend Conservation Alliance, is currently suing the federal regulators who rubber-stamped the project.
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Mr. Putin's defensive economic mind-set also reflects the desire of the voters who just rubber-stamped his return to power.
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In an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong confirmed the purchase is ready to be rubber stamped.
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As a result, they say, anything the leader wants will be rubber stamped in parliament, reviving memories of Fascist rule in Italy.
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Marrying that offensive figure with his stellar defensive reputation would have rubber-stamped his induction this year, his first on the ballot.
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Correction (October 13th): The original version of this article said that parliament had rubber-stamped the state-of-emergency law; it had not.
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I was terrified of any negative judgment and being rubber-stamped as another junkie statistic, as I'd never come clean about this before.
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China's legislature rubber-stamped approval on Xi Jinping's say-so; Mr Obama intends to put the agreement into effect without consulting the Senate.
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Now, too often, they are written by party leadership in Congress and either rubber stamped in committee or rushed to the full floor.
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Negotiated between the campaigns every four years and rubber-stamped by the CPD, the candidates' Memoranda of Understanding read like Hollywood stars' contract riders.
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As Tatyana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Moscow Centre notes, the FSB drafts most of the repressive laws that are rubber-stamped by the parliament.
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His more detailed draft mandate, circulated this week, will be rubber-stamped on May 22nd and formal talks should begin soon after Britain's election.
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This year, the government has already rubber stamped 185 green vehicles to receive subsidies in its first round of road use approvals last month.
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Many ordinary members want the Big Five to give them two finalists to choose between, rather than a single name to be rubber-stamped.
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In modern times, the casting of electoral votes has been a purely ceremonial occasion where the results in the states have been rubber-stamped.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May rubber-stamped her globalist agenda to CNBC Thursday, underlining that the country will not give in to protectionism and isolationism.
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The fee would have to be approved by University President Wallace Loh and the Board of Regents, but student government measures are typically rubber-stamped.
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He would have been as surprised as everyone else that the title, seemingly a foregone conclusion for months, was rubber-stamped in such strange circumstances.
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When I was in the Senate, we called the House FBI oversight committee an FBI field office because they rubber-stamped whatever the Bureau wanted.
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But rather than using this opportunity as leverage to hold our partners accountable, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rubber-stamped the Saudi-led coalition's actions.
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And with Pelosi having just rubber-stamped McConnell and Trump's $4.6 billion emergency aid package, these freshmen lawmakers see this new effort as a smokescreen.
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After Mr Putin's first term in office, which ended in 2004, the Duma ceased to be a democratic forum; it merely rubber-stamped the Kremlin's edicts.
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Consider also that Reinsdorf led the group of owners who were opposed to Manfred becoming Selig's replacement, or who at least didn't want it rubber-stamped.
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The line-up will be rubber-stamped in a vote on Wednesday in parliament, where the PSD and its coalition party ALDE have an overall majority.
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In modern times, the casting of electoral votes has been a purely ceremonial occasion in which the state results from Election Day have been rubber-stamped.
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The opposition leaders said if debate proceeds later this month, the amendments are likely to be rubber-stamped by a parliament dominated by the ruling party.
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The IMF's executive board rubber-stamped the previous tranche of funds in December, worth around $7.6 billion, after a staff-level agreement was reached in November.
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The law — which was rubber-stamped by the country's Parliament last year — is part of wide-ranging efforts by Beijing to manage the internet within China's borders.
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He recognizes exemplary work by his team members by sending notes rubber-stamped with a woodpecker image, a gesture coveted like a Nobel Prize at the Carter Center.
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The tug-of-war over Unizo marks a stark departure from most acquisitions in Japan, where takeovers tend to be pre-agreed deals waiting to be rubber-stamped.
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One of the sources described the detentions as a preemptive effort to ensure Prince Mohammed's "ascent will be rubber stamped by the Allegiance Council when the time comes".
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The tug-of-war over Unizo has marked a stark departure from most acquisitions in Japan, where takeovers tend to be pre-agreed deals waiting to be rubber-stamped.
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AMLO arranged a second low-turnout vote on November 24th-25th, which rubber-stamped ten of his pet projects, including a costly refinery in his home state of Tabasco.
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On April 18th, hours before his MPs rubber-stamped the extension of a state of emergency for another three months, the Turkish strongman called snap presidential and parliamentary elections.
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"It isn't good enough to outsource it to SADC," he says of the Southern African Development Community, a regional bloc that in the past has rubber-stamped rigged elections.
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"That would concern me," Mr. King said, saying that it would essentially convert the immigration system into a large enterprise by which people were being rubber-stamped for entry.
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The authorities are, for example, pointing to a recent acquittal in a criminal case, something virtually unheard-of in Uzbekistan, where judges traditionally rubber stamped decisions made by prosecutors.
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Apple has narrowly dodged a 15% tariff on its flagship products including the iPhone, iPad and MacBooks, after US President Donald Trump rubber-stamped a trade deal with China.
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It would explain the knee-jerk reactions, rubber-stamped and even cheered on in Congress, to crises in the Levant, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and other conflict zones like Ukraine.
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Instead, Congress has practically rubber-stamped every request for additional resources ICE has made while turning a blind eye to the gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the agency.
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Only one city, South Africa's Durban, bid for the 2022 event, with the bid rubber-stamped at Commonwealth Games Federation meeting in Auckland in 13 giving Africa its first Games.
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Under Obama, sensitive foreign acquisitions almost routinely were rubber-stamped by the CFIUS, and the approval process sometimes was delegated by Cabinet officials on the CFIUS to lower-ranking aides.
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The appointment will be rubber-stamped at the supervisory board's next meeting, which is likely to take place shortly before Evonik's annual shareholder meeting on May 18, the sources said.
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While Dr. Poliquin has a policy that patients must contact her directly for more medication, she worries about clinics where prescriptions may get rubber-stamped in a flurry of requests.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany approved arms exports worth 6.24 billion euros ($7.23 billion) last year, down 9 percent from 2016, according to a government report rubber-stamped by the cabinet on Wednesday.
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"We haven't finalised which projects will be approved first but the plan is to have them rubber stamped quickly," said one source familiar with plans, who both declined to be identified.
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Seoul officials then told reporters in background briefings that Kim Yong Jin had been accused of sitting in a "disrespectful" way during a meeting of the North&aposs rubber-stamped parliament.
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And deals were typically rubber-stamped by boards that tended not to look too closely at the details or valuations, said bankers and lawyers who have worked on state sector deals.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italian Francesco Molinari fired himself into the Ryder Cup record books as his 4&2 defeat of Phil Mickelson rubber-stamped Europe's victory over the United States on Sunday.
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"It's politically tricky and no sure thing that this gets rubber-stamped," Jim Courier, the American Davis Cup captain, said in an interview on Monday while expressing support for the plan.
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"The Supreme Court has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship," Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement Monday.
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VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - The European Tour's planned alliance with its Asian equivalent is likely to be rubber-stamped in time for next season, chief executive Keith Pelley told Reuters on Sunday.
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Albrecht's nomination has yet to be rubber-stamped by the future supervisory board, as Bain and Cinven have to fill five non-executive board seats following the resignation of directors last week.
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The draft - with annotations and alternative phrasings for a number of issues - still needs to be rubber-stamped by other ministries and has not yet been approved by Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks.
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This represents an unusual counter-offensive in Japan, where M&A offers tend to be pre-agreed deals waiting to be rubber-stamped and hostile bids like that of H.I.S. remain rare.
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He once observed that "the U.S. economy does not need a one-world view of risk imported from Europe" as American regulatory agencies "seemingly rubber-stamped decisions" made by international financial regulators.
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The lawsuit, citing minutes and emails, said board members had rubber-stamped compensation agreements hammered out by Mr. Page, Alphabet's chief executive, who along with Mr. Brin owns voting control of the company.
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Apple has escaped a 15% tariff on its flagship products including the iPhone, iPad and MacBook range after US President Donald Trump rubber-stamped a deal to postpone tariffs with China on Thursday.
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Johnson already started greasing the wheels on Thursday after he clinched a surprise agreement with Brussels and jetted to the European Council summit in Brussels to get it rubber-stamped by EU leaders.
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That does not mean that every military contract with Amazon, Microsoft, or Google should be rubber-stamped, or that tech engineers should blindly fall in line, salute the flag, and not voice concerns.
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Lawmakers at the European Parliament gave the green light to the new laws on Wednesday, which will have to be rubber stamped by the European Council in the coming months before they take effect.
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The bottom line: The days of getting an H-1B transfer quickly rubber-stamped are long gone, and that makes it vital to do whatever you can to keep the odds in your favor.
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If it hadn't landed in front of Orenstein, the government's application would have likely been rubber-stamped, and Apple would have handed the DOJ a thumb drive within that 1-2 week window it promised.
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The bill was hastily rubber-stamped before Britain's 2017 general election, and questions about how exactly it would be enforced, as well as concerns about user privacy, were set aside to be dealt with later.
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"By refusing to review the 6th Circuit's ruling, the Supreme Court has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship," said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.
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Even if CIT does manage to finalize a deal with Musk before the monthly City Council meeting in April — the final meeting under Emanuel — there's no guarantee that such a significant project will get rubber stamped.
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But less than 24 hours after their Danish marriage was rubber-stamped in Moscow, the authorities realised there had been an administrative oversight - as same sex marriage is illegal in Russia - and their passports were annulled.
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The proposals have still to be rubber-stamped by the sport's congress but that looks a forgone conclusion as they continue to fully support the reforms Coe has put in place in his first year in office.
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Businesses also warmed to the declaration of progress, which was rubber-stamped over breakfast in Brussels after a night of back and forth phonecalls between May, her Northern Irish backers the Democratic Unionist Party, and EU officials.
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The deal appears to have been rubber-stamped before OPEC's Vienna meeting when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman met at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, over the weekend.
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Brownlee has a claim to be the best-ever, having become the first triathlete to retain an Olympic title, while gold for Jorgensen rubber-stamped a dominance that was built on a remarkable 13-race unbeaten streak.
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One of Rajapaksa's cabinet ministers, speaking on condition of anonymity, also confirmed the deals had been approved by the cabinet, while documents seen by Reuters showed the deals were set to be rubber-stamped at the meeting.
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Alongside her board colleague Erskine Bowles, she rubber-stamped Zuckerberg's desire two years ago to introduce Class C no-vote shares, a move that sparked proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services to recommend shareholders vote against their nominations.
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"These are not isolated events; it is a great reversal," said Gabriela Rivadeneira, the president of Ecuador's National Assembly, controlled by Mr. Correa's Alianza País party, which for years rubber-stamped his reforms with few questions asked.
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With its refusal to review the lower court decision, the Supreme Court "has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship," said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.
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With four months left until Britain leaves the EU, the divorce treaty and an accompanying political declaration are due to be rubber-stamped in Brussels by British Prime Minister Theresa May and the other 27 EU leaders.
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As people sympathetic to Mr. Perelman tell it, the board was a boys club that avoided tension and disagreement, while it rubber-stamped projects with clear conflicts of interest, and ignored efforts to diversify the audience and programming.
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Parliament agreed in principle in 2007 to replace the deterrent system and Monday's vote rubber stamped the decision to go ahead with approving the building of four submarines to ensure Britain can have nuclear weapons continuously at sea.
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China's legislature on Saturday morning rubber-stamped the Paris climate change agreement, paving the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping and Obama to announce the formal adoption of the deal on the eve of the G-20 summit here in Hangzhou.
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Banka, whose appointment was rubber-stamped by the body's Foundation Board on the final day of the world conference on doping in sport, has also pledged to set up a doping fund for corporate sponsors to contribute toward clean sport.
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Banka, whose appointment was rubber-stamped by the body's Foundation Board on the final day of the world conference on doping in sport, has also pledged to set up a doping fund for corporate sponsors to contribute toward clean sport.
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"The notion that a project of such enormous proportions in a legislatively protected water sanctuary could be rubber-stamped in this perfunctory way degrades all the environmental protections the public deserves, even if they call it a park," Mr. Emery said.
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Four months before Britain leaves the EU, the legal divorce treaty and an accompanying political declaration on future ties are due to be rubber-stamped by British Prime Minister Theresa May and the leaders of the other 27 EU countries.
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With four months left until Britain leaves the EU, the divorce treaty and accompanying political declaration are due to be rubber-stamped in Brussels on Sunday by May and the other 27 EU leaders so they can go to the respective parliaments.
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The International Olympic Committee unanimously rubber-stamped the decision taken by its executive board in June, approving the inclusion of skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing, karate and a joint baseball/softball bid, which is expected to significantly boost local support for the Olympics.
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The sources said the ECB bond-buying scheme was flexible enough to allow for a temporary increase in Italian purchases and that such a move would not necessarily need to be rubber-stamped by the ECB's Governing Council, which is due to meet on Dec.
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Back in 1937, the Supreme Court abandoned its original understanding of the commerce clause of the Constitution and rubber stamped the rest of the New Deal, ushering in the long era of federal dominance that we are familiar with in the United States today.
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What Conn was not telling clients — or the Social Security Administration — was that his purported 99 percent success rate was the result of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal payments to Social Security Administrative Law Judge David Daugherty, who essentially rubber-stamped the claims.
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No, I'm also talking a suite of relatively recent popular innovations that have exploded the amount of sensitive data collected by the private sector, data that is increasingly accessible to various three-letter agencies without even a rubber stamped warrant from a secret court.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will only detail how big a divorce settlement Britain is willing to pay the EU when the bloc gives a commitment to moving talks forward, according to a plan rubber-stamped by even her most pro-Brexit ministers.
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If the judge decides Assange should be extradited, the decision needs to be rubber-stamped by Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel although he will have the right to appeal to London's High Court and then possibly to the Supreme Court, Britain's top judicial body.
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And he doesn't know the difference between the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the two annual state meetings that brought Beijing to a halt over the past two weeks as the next year of policies and priorities were rubber-stamped.
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Four months before Britain leaves the EU, the legal divorce treaty and an accompanying political declaration on the two sides' future ties are ready to be rubber-stamped by British Prime Minister Theresa May and the leaders of the 27 union states staying on together after Brexit.
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Banka, whose appointment was rubber-stamped by the body's Foundation Board on the final day of the world conference on doping in sport, has pledged to attempt to eradicate doping, a lofty goal with WADA currently locked in one of the biggest scandals to hit world sport.
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Now, instead of building on this historic work, EPA political leadership rubber-stamped a biased analysis of both the GHG and fuel economy standards cobbled together by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide a political rationale for what is essentially an eight-year freeze of the GHG standards.
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"Post-Truth Feed (for Daniil Kharms)" features a series of neat, rubber-stamped jars — an approximation of his grandfather's death traps — annotated with handwritten snippets of a 1930 poem by Soviet-era absurdist writer Daniil Kharms, "Notnow," which feels all too relevant in our current post-truth climate: This is This.
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The truck with the oversized load was erroneously driving in the outside lane, where the clearance was lower, in part to give space to another passing truck.. The state's Department of Transportation rubber-stamped an oversize-load permit to the trucking company without verifying clearance limitations along the proposed route.
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The Washington Post ran the Watergate story, the Times published the Pentagon Papers, but at the turn of the millennium, "one dubious story after another was simply rubber-stamped by the media, not least the lies on which the government founded its case for the invasion of Iraq," n+1 writes.
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Before the assault accusation surfaced, they were in a tricky position: They didn't want to be seen as occupying space as far to the left as their more liberal colleagues, and may not have seen much value in denouncing Kavanaugh if he was going to be rubber-stamped by the Republican majority anyway.
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Sunday's protests, reminiscent of 2014's Umbrella Revolution, came hours before China rubber stamped the ruling on Monday, with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) voting unanimously to pass the interpretation — the fifth such intervention by Beijing since the British handed back the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
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" Milbank: This House is bananas - WaPo : "The House Rules Committee, meeting in its ornate chamber on the third floor of the Capitol on Monday night, sent two bills to the House floor under 'closed' rules — that is, legislation that must be rubber stamped in toto, without being amended by so much as a comma.
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On Tuesday, UEFA finally rubber-stamped Kosovo's full membership in the European football family, marking the end of a journey that began in earnest almost 25 years ago, when a handful of rebels split from the game in federal Yugoslavia and started their own football league in the mud and marshes of this embattled Balkan republic.
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"Nothing on the specific rationale for this bill, other than this with respect to the pocket veto period in general: Having the legislature pass more than 100 bills in such a hasty and scrambled way, praying for them to be rubber stamped, is never a good formula for effectively doing public business," Christie spokeswoman Joelle Farrell said.
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So what they are trying to do is use what&aposs called the safety act, there was a law put in place by our federal government, 2002, that basically said if companies hire out a security company that&aposs rubber-stamped by the Department of Homeland Security, that basically, what MGM is saying they are immune from any liability that results if there is a terroristic act.
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What he proposed was: to give the lower house of Parliament more power to pick cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, all of whom are currently proposed by the president and rubber-stamped by the legislature; to bar a president from serving more than two terms over all (it's currently two consecutive terms); and to give some teeth to the currently toothless State Council.
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On your rounds you are motored by Robbie Shakespeare on Junior Delgado's "Fort Augustus," and Bootsy Collins on Parliament's "Flash Light," and Lloyd Parks on Dennis Brown's "Equal Rights," and Jamaaladeen Tacuma on Ornette Coleman's "Voice Poetry," and Jah Wobble on "Swan Lake" by Public Image Limited (19783), and so many others you can't name since you heard them in a club or on a 12-inch single with the most minimal information rubber-stamped off-center and half-inked.
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Article 20183 is back on – and it got worse, not better Julia Reda reports that the European Union's effort to get the big tech platforms to install draconian upload filters to prevent the spread of any copyrighted content is closer to becoming a reality than it was a week ago, after Germany apparently came to an agreement with France: Most likely, Germany's and France's compromise will be rubber-stamped by the Council on Friday, 22018 February, and then a final trilogue negotiation will take place with the Parliament on Monday, 24 February.
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