rubber-stamps

The NRC rubber-stamps these evacuation plans, but they're not based on discernible performance standards, said Alex Matthiessen, president of the Riverkeeper environmental group fighting Indian Point relicensing.

AP: Populations around U.S. nuclear plants soar 2011

Alderman-at-Large Bob O'Connor, who's chairs the Finance Committee along with Alderman Leroy Keith and Alderman Abby Schuler, the two that operate ward committees in secret, usually rubber-stamps expenditures above $5,000, but now says there should be a cap, perhaps 15% of the ward funds to be used as a discretionary slush fund.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The VA just rubber-stamps as ` ` accredited '' the names submitted to it.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

The FTA rates and recommends projects for grants, and Congress usually rubber-stamps its recommendations.

Off the San Francisco Rails 2011

There's no way the chairman's office rubber-stamps this transaction.

AT&T Deal May Face 'Steep Climb' at FCC Amy Schatz 2011

Then, with the introduction of state primaries, which had opened up the selection of a candidate to more of the voting public, the conventions had become mere rubber-stamps on decisions that had, for the most part, already been made.

Notes on the Conventions 2008

This is the sort of experience we want, Mr. McBush, not the kind that rubber-stamps tax cuts for the rich and a war that wasted ten of thousands of lives (American and Iraqi) and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Obama making imprint on DNC organization 2008

The U.S. Senate rubber-stamps most federal prosecution and judicial appointments.

Andrew Kreig: Feds Bully 'Die Hard's' McTiernan Into Plea for False Statements 2010

Then, with the introduction of state primaries, which had opened up the selection of a candidate to more of the voting public, the conventions had become mere rubber-stamps on decisions that had, for the most part, already been made.

Notes on the Conventions 2008

Flanked by a gaggle of military brass, Pentagon deputy honcho Paul Wolfowitz told a rapt panel of Congressional rubber-stamps that Bush wants big bucks to run "counter-insurgency" and "counter-terrorist" operations in "ungoverned areas" of the world – and in the hinterlands of nations providing "sanctuary" for terrorists.

Convergence and Continuity: The American-Backed Terror Campaign in Iran 2009