rubber stamp

Example Sentences

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The group of Chagossians and Holloway hope their encampment will scuttle the agreement once and for all before the British Parliament rubber stamps it.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had called the FDA a “failure,” writing in a blog post that it “rubber stamps too many useless products.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s like a rubber stamp. Right? The kind with ink, you know?”

From Literature

"If we are rubber stamp, we will not propose so many comments," Leung said, referring to the approval of a homegrown national security law last year.

From Barron's

By the late 1850s, Northerners were equally fed up with the Supreme Court, which under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was seen as a rubber stamp for slaveholders’ goals.

From Los Angeles Times