How to Use rubber-stamp in a Sentence
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During the fall 2023 season, Gucci and Miu Miu were among the top brands who rubber-stamped the look.
— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023 -
And many say their view that results can’t be trusted should be reason enough not to rubber-stamp local vote counts.
— Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024 -
The county board was expected to give its rubber-stamp, final approval last fall, but the item was pulled from its agenda.
— Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024 -
The idea was to bring working-class residents into government and turn the board into more than a rubber-stamping mechanism for the mayor.
— E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Once the committee approves the candidate the Prime Minister can make a recommendation to the King, who will rubber-stamp the appointment.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023 -
The three-day presidential vote starting on Sunday is expected to rubber-stamp Mr. el-Sisi’s hold for another six-year term: None of his three challengers stand a chance of unseating him.
— Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023 -
The county essentially rubber-stamped the reopening soon afterward—a far cry from what Musk had invited.
— Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023 -
On Monday, China announced that the premier’s news conference, marking the end of the country’s annual rubber-stamp legislature, will no longer be held.
— Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 -
North Korea possesses the kind of dynasty that Russia does not, even though each Kim family successor gets rubber-stamped as leader by a party congress.
— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024 -
Wednesday’s suit takes issue with former Twitter officers rubber-stamping the legal firm’s bill.
— Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023 -
In March, Russia’s rubber-stamp Duma, or parliament, passed a law making criticism of the country’s mercenaries punishable by up to five years in prison.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2023 -
When the 63-year-old is confirmed as premier by China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Saturday, he will be expected to repeat a similar feat on a national scale.
— Lyric Li, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Dual strikes’ effect on nominations Emmy voters often are criticized for rubber-stamping the same names year after year — but not in 2024.
— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024 -
Schumer’s delegation also met with the head of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the commerce minister and Wang, the country’s highest-ranking diplomat.
— Ken Moritsugu, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Opponents of the Chevron doctrine argue that judges apply it too often to rubber-stamp decisions made by government bureaucrats.
— Mark Sherman, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024 -
The sudden move, approved by the top decision-making body of China’s rubber-stamp parliament on July 25, followed weeks of speculation and rumor about the fate of Qin, who had been absent from public view over the month prior.
— Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023 -
For the first time in a half century, those delegates will not perform the ceremonial duty of voting for the winner of the Democratic primaries, a rubber-stamp process that’s heavy on celebration and light on drama.
— Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 22 July 2024 -
That’s why the CEO of America’s biggest bank, at one point, decided to personally rubber-stamp or veto every branch closure to ensure the institution didn’t lose any more customers to rivals.
— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 May 2024 -
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to complete the biggest government reshuffle in a decade at the annual meeting of the rubber-stamp legislature.
— Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2023 -
One of them is typically proposed by the government, the other by the opposition; lawmakers rubber-stamp the decision in a symbolic vote, and the remaining seven places are filled by ministers, senior judges and lawyers.
— Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 14 June 2023 -
The legislation was approved by a top decision-making body within China’s rubber-stamp parliament on Wednesday.
— Simone McCarthy, CNN, 29 June 2023 -
For decades, California’s government unions have bankrolled the campaigns of politicians who, once in office, return the favor — rubber-stamping union demands, no matter how extraordinary.
— Will Swaim, National Review, 16 June 2023 -
The Russian parliament rubber-stamped a bill that outlawed discrediting the Russian military or spreading false information a week after Moscow's troops rolled into Ukraine.
— Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023 -
The annual meeting of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature and top political advisory body is traditionally a stage for the central government and the premier to shine.
— Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Judges aren't rubber-stamping prosecutors' fine requests.
— Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023 -
Judges aren’t rubber-stamping prosecutors’ fine requests.
— Michael Kunzelman, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023 -
The National People's Congress is set to open on Saturday and expected to continue for approximately two weeks as delegates rubber-stamp a reshuffling of personnel.
— Fox News, 4 Mar. 2023 -
Zhao leads China’s rubber-stamp national legislature and is a member of its powerful seven-man Politburo Standing Committee.
— Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024 -
But since the 1990s, when Democrat Bill Clinton was president, conservatives have increasingly complained that judges were rubber-stamping new federal regulations.
— David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024 -
Cigna is using an algorithm to review — and often reject — hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, a new lawsuit claims, with doctors rubber-stamping those denials without individually reviewing each case.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 July 2023
- The legislature has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the President.
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That court is gonna be a rubber stamp for all of this kind of stuff.
— Leila Atassi, cleveland, 30 June 2022 -
The rubber stamp is available in two sizes and comes with an ink pad.
— Noma Nazish, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 -
The technique uses a rubber stamp with a grid of tiny bumps on the bottom.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2020 -
Some rubber stamps go missing from the office one night, and the new boy is the prime suspect.
— María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019 -
At the moment the district council is just a rubber stamp.
— BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019 -
Indeed, in Baseball, the appeal is a far cry from a rubber stamp.
— Marc Edelman, Forbes, 1 May 2022 -
If that doesn’t change in the days leading up to November 12th, the judge more than likely will give it the rubber stamp.
— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2021 -
But The Post found that the review process effectively amounts to a rubber stamp.
— Nate Jones, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022 -
That does not make the FISC a rubber stamp, as ill-informed critiques deduce.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019 -
That works out to be near the highest amount (in round numbers) that Team Biden can rubber stamp without Congress.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021 -
Instead, the board also voted 4-1 to rubber stamp the agreement.
— oregonlive, 27 July 2021 -
Danielson said that there's no reason for the City Council to rubber stamp anything.
— Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020 -
The executive board is often seen as a rubber stamp, and even more so the full membership.
— Stephen Wade, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018 -
But all those images came from the same location on the original rubber stamp.
— Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022 -
Judge Kavanaugh would also act as a rubber stamp for President Trump’s fraud and abuse.
— Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 11 July 2018 -
Instead, the Russian parliament, a rubber stamp for the Putin regime, moved only the upper limit, widening the range by three years, to 18 to 30.
— David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 July 2023 -
Lamb has voted 93% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and will be a rubber stamp for the dangerous liberal policies.
— Eric Bradner, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021 -
The Board didn’t rubber stamp the extension and expects a more detailed report next meeting.
— John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021 -
There, the press largely acts as a rubber stamp on behalf of oligarchs who run some of the least competitive companies in the world.
— J.j. Colao, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023 -
Perez denied accusations that the board had become the chief’s rubber stamp.
— Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019 -
The three-term incumbent countered that Hutchison was a rubber stamp for Donald Trump.
— Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018 -
All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders.
— Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023 -
The announcement will kick off months of talks that could take up to a year before the European Parliament rubber stamps the target.
— Angela Dewan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Each of those judges has already been appointed and confirmed — the public vote is one final rubber stamp.
— Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022 -
The only step left was for the county to finalize the deal, which is usually a rubber stamp decision.
— Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024 -
I Board of Directors is expected to apply the rubber stamp at its April 28 meeting.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021 -
The folks behind Laurelhurst Market were the first to bite, opening a Big’s Chicken outpost in a former rubber stamp shop in 2018.
— oregonlive, 12 May 2022 -
His new book challenges simplistic interpretations of Thailand’s judges and courts as mere rubber stamps.
— Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020 -
Such committees can be used to essentially rubber stamp factory decisions, such as an employee committee in Sri Lanka that agreed to unfavorable terms for overtime pay.
— Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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