Approves

The sommelier approves of customers who choose red wine with fish.

Tom approves.

I don't care if Tom approves or not.

"The gods, if gods the good and just regard, / and thy own conscience, that approves the right, / grant thee due guerdon and a fit reward."

Tom approves of this message.

At length one pleased me more than the rest. He approves of my judgment, swearing that that horse had been desired frequently by many.

After a while, one pleased me more than the rest. He approves of my judgment, swearing that that horse had been desired frequently by many.

If the House approves the impeachment resolution, the matter moves to the Senate for a trial where conviction is far from certain.

It is the 22nd of March of 2015. As I enter the Lulu Island pizzeria, Adil the Kazakh is sitting at a table, there he quietly reading a Russian fiction novel. I buy a diet cola and sit with him. I try to pronounce the Russian title. He approves of my pronunciation. I say that Russian letters look wide and masculine. He mentions that he has read Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood in Russian translation from Japanese. I mention another famous writer, Yukio Mishima. Sasha the Ukrainian enters. We all start talking about the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. People were more positive then than now, in the lingering AIDS era. People are more negative now. Then we start talking about all sorts of drugs. Sasha's girlfriend, 58, a Canadian, smokes marijuana frequently. Marijuana is prevalent today. I think that it affects the mind.

The US military doctrine approves of the use of tactical nuclear weapons.