imprimatur
Example Sentences
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She needs no institution’s imprimatur, and there’s no corner of the industry promising anything she hasn’t already achieved.
From Los Angeles Times
The press’s hysterical reaction was perhaps inevitable given the convention of describing it as an “administration plan,” a “White House plan,” with the implied institutional imprimatur.
Mr. Kennedy is trying to help his trial-lawyer friends by giving a government imprimatur to their unscientific claims.
The Treasury imprimatur and financing by sophisticated institutions may have given investors a false sense of security and caused them to relax underwriting standards.
Along with the kleptocratic Palestinian Authority dictatorship in Ramallah, this is who, and what, Group of 7 powers like Britain and France have decided to reward with an imprimatur of legitimate statehood.
From Los Angeles Times
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