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rubber stamp

noun as in seal of approval

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Andrew Leung, the outgoing president of the legislature, did not agree that the institution had become a rubber stamp.

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The piece emphasizes that Monarez was fired for maintaining scientific integrity rather than acting as a “rubber stamp” for Kennedy’s agenda.

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Last week, he sparked a backlash when he fired the head of the CDC, Susan Monarez, who said the reason was her refusal to rubber stamp recommendations from his new vaccine panel.

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By the late 1850s, Northerners were equally fed up with the Supreme Court, which under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was seen as a rubber stamp for slaveholders’ goals.

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There have been voices in the SNP for some time saying that an independence vote should be a rubber stamp on the "settled will" of the people of Scotland.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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