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There is a Saudi Arabian proverb which states that he who has approved of wrongdoing is as guilty as he who has committed it.
My parents approved of my marrying Mary.
He nodded to show that he approved of my plan.
She approved of my plan.
Mark Twain, upon hearing of the death of someone he disliked said, "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
" Her parents have never approved of her living with her boyfriend.
The politician approved of abortion under certain circumstances, but was against its use in general for religious reasons.
His father approved of his plan.
An Arab proverb notes that he who has approved of wrongdoing is as guilty as he who has committed it.
My mother finally approved of our plan.
Grateful patients or surgeons sometimes offered surgical instruments as a thanksgiving for a successful surgical operation; thus it is stated Erostratus offered to Apollo in the Temple of Delphus a forceps of lead, to show how little he approved of the fingers as a medium for extracting teeth.
But no moralist who takes Excellence as an ultimate end has ever approved of such sacrifice, at least so far as Moral Excellence is concerned; no one has ever directed an individual to promote the virtue of others except in so far as this promotion is compatible with, or rather involved in, the complete realisation of Virtue in himself.
” After stating Hume’s theory that “no qualities of the mind are approved of as virtuous, but such as are useful or agreeable either to the person himself or to others, and no qualities are disapproved of as vicious but such as have a contrary tendency”; he remarks that “Nature seems indeed to have so happily adjusted our sentiments of approbation and disapprobation to the conveniency both of the individual and of the society, that after the strictest examination it will be found, I believe, that this is universally the case.
The neighborhood, however, highly approved of these arrangements, and we were much admired as we went through the village; the more youthful and vigorous part of the community making dashes now and then to cut us off, and lying in wait to intercept us at points of vantage.
His majesty approved of the proposal, and I took them up, one by one, in my hands, ready mounted and armed, with the proper officers to exercise them.
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