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Critics have long argued that banning college athletes from earning money to play on their teams has been unfair, since schools and organizations like the NCAA have, over the years, regularly used the "likeness" of college athletes to generate profit for themselves through licensing and merchandise deals.
Source: tatoeba (8226652)
The British government announced Friday plans to fast-track any viable COVID-19 vaccine, allowing the emergency use of the drug before it goes through the formal licensing process, if it meets certain safety and quality standards.
Source: tatoeba (11663059)
The government said it would open two downtown streets to informal vendors on weekends and also start licensing ambulatory vendors.
Source: tatoeba (12467747)
To fence Truth about with prohibition and licensings, the weak inventions of fear and policy, is to doubt her strength, and vainly to imagine that she needs our protection in the battle that she is for ever waging with falsehood and with error.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include accrediting, allow, allowing, authorization, authorize.
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