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• The kind of help that Cesarini had been able to give Galileo can be seen in the way he had arranged for The Assayer to be read by a young Dominican professor of theology, Niccolò Riccardi, who not only gave the imprimatur, as the license to print was called, but added what reads like a publicity blurb. —  Galileo in Rome
• David Pogue doles out the fourth annual "Pogie Awards" for the best ideas in consumer electronics (no trophy, but Pogue's imprimatur is likely worth its weight in holiday sales). —  Inc.com
• You could probably tell just by the title and the beginning words that it's an old book (yes, the imprimatur is from 1913). —  Sierra Highlands
• That neither the assistance of friends nor the imprimatur of authorities is infallible is proved by the facts that mistakes do creep into works of science, however carefully examined, and that more than one book with an imprimatur has, none the less, found its way on to the Index_. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• The Congressional imprimatur was also refused to the report of the Hon. J. R. Bartlett, who was the civilian member of the Joint Commission which had established the new boundary between the United States and Mexico. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis

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