Word: imprimatur
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...expect those events to do anything productive to allow Obama to get over the biggest hurdle standing between him and the White House. American voters are not looking for a celebrity or talk show sidekick to lead them. Obama is an intelligent and thoughtful potential President, but Winfrey's imprimatur is unlikely to convey those traits to many undecided voters...
...that this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their imprimatur on the death spiral of dissent on this campus...
...With the Games seen as a mark of its arrival, Beijing is under pressure from foreign activists to comply with international standards from the workplace to air quality. Friday?s report added leverage for human rights reforms because of the official U.S. imprimatur: the CECC consists of nine Senators, nine House members and five senior Administration officials appointed by the President...
...Many will try things like relocating schools to minority neighborhoods or taking socio-economic status or neighborhood diversity into account, all measures endorsed by Justice Kennedy and at least mentioned by Chief Justice Roberts in today's opinions. But despite the court's apparent imprimatur, even those alternatives are not guaranteed to survive a future court challenge...
...Constitution requires the government to be damned sure someone is guilty before taking away his life or liberty. "Reasonable doubt," though "quantitatively imprecise," denotes a high "degree of confidence" in a suspect's guilt, wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan in the 1970 case that gave a constitutional imprimatur to the standard...