With the apparent approval of the king, he defied all the laws about synagogues being smaller and lower than churches, and plain of decoration.

He notes with apparent approval that most states already have testing programs.

- all to the apparent approval of Cincinnati voters, who re-elected him by huge margins over and over again.

The king watched all this with apparent approval, but his mind was not with the stupid, cruel little ceremony.

Nor will I have Ron, here, doing it with my apparent approval.

Watched me with interest and apparent approval, as I crossed to the sink and tipped the lovely-smelling soup down the drain.

The child did increase in compliance, and Erickson noted, with apparent approval, that he trembled when his mother looked at him.

He quotes her with apparent approval:

In Honduras, a coup removed the country's elected left-leaning leader with the apparent tacit approval of the Obama administration.