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  • verb transitive To approve again.

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re- +‎ approve

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Examples

  • •Workers would have to reapprove the union every year, by a majority of all workers, not just those voting.

    Q & A: The Wis. protests and what they mean for nation 2011

  • In May 2009 -- two months after the second explosion and seven months before the one that killed Manis -- OSHA officials had been at the refinery, conducting an on-site evaluation to determine whether to reapprove the site's VPP status, which had been in effect for almost eight years.

    The Center for Public Integrity: Deaths and safety violations found within OSHA's 'model' workplaces The Center for Public Integrity 2011

  • Regulators have a few more hoops to jump through before they can reapprove the alfalfa variety — probably not in time for the seeds to be planted in 2011, however.

    A Spoonful of Sugar Will Soon Cost More Gregory Conko 2010

  • Jim Bunning of Kentucky and Jim DeMint of South Carolina (Bunning says he considers Bernanke the "definition of moral hazard") to Vermont independent Bernie Sanders, a self-declared socialist, who has promised to place a hold on Bernanke's confirmation once it hits the floor, forcing Democrats to round up 60 votes to reapprove him.

    The Future of the Fed 2009

  • We need to increase funding for the Ryan White Act and insure that it is not a fight to reapprove it but rather a given that it continues until there is a cure.

    Thomas DeLorenzo: Universal Healthcare and the 2008 Election 2008

  • Mora was ultimately unsuccessful -- Donald Rumsfeld temporarily dropped the use of the techniques, but secretly mandated a new panel of pliant experts to reapprove them in an essentially undiluted form -- but the complaints of both the FBI and the NCIS indicate how the interrogation process should have proceeded.

    Andy Worthington: Six in Guant��namo Charged with 9/11 Murders: Why Now? And What About the Torture? 2008

  • President Bush has been pushing house Democrats to reapprove the bill.

    CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2008 2008

  • When all the paperwork was done, we had to wait for the centralized authority of all the SM malls to reapprove us as tenants - which is standard, but which also gave them a chance to offer us an inline space.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • When all the paperwork was done, we had to wait for the centralized authority of all the SM malls to reapprove us as tenants - which is standard, but which also gave them a chance to offer us an inline space.

    the return of the rabbit Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Doctor, the FDA refused to reapprove silicone implants earlier this year.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2004 2004

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