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Did she endorse the plan?
endorse = express support for
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She earns more from endorsements than from her basketball contract.
endorsements = supporting products in advertising or marketing
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She wrote "For deposit only," the account number, and then signed her name to endorse the check.
endorse = approved depositing a check into a bank account
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She endorsed his run for the office.
endorsed = expressed public support
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A silver cross pendant hangs from his neck, like he's saying Jesus endorses what he did. We must believe in a different Jesus.
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endorses = approves of
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For this, he was tolerated, if not endorsed as the competent painter he was.
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endorsed = given public support
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I, Samuel W. Westing, otherwise known as Sandy McSouthers and others, do hereby give and bequeath all the property and possessions in my name as follows: To all of you, in equal shares, the deed to Sunset Towers; And to my former wife, Berthe Erica Crow, the ten-thousand-dollar check forfeited by table one, and two ten-thousand-dollar checks endorsed by J.J. Ford and Alexander McSouthers.
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endorsed = approved placing funds into a bank account by writing on the back of a check
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I didn't even turn on my phone for a while, a decision endorsed by Dr. Singh.
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endorsed = approved or supported
- I didn't know what to say—she had endorsed the unstated rule of honor fighting only a few years earlier. (source)
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She admonished Serena to donate the fees from her endorsements to charity, and Serena did.
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endorsements = public support for products in return for payment
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For distances of less than 100 kilometers it was not necessary to get your passport endorsed, but sometimes there were patrols hanging about the railway stations, who examined the papers of any Party member they found there and asked awkward questions.
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endorsed = approved with a stamp
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Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies.
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endorse = express support for
- They began to endorse Japanese products and had a cartoon and a live-action TV series based on their exploits.† (source)
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- You're endorsing treachery to one's country?† (source)
- In any event, if you would agree to make that possible, I would be happy to send Conrad a letter endorsing the mating.† (source)
- If he doesn't know how to vote on an issue, he looks for an endorsement by firemen or police officers.† (source)
- The group enjoyed the full endorsement and blessing of the Vatican.† (source)
- This was a good portion of her day, the touring of various departments, the introduction of new products, either Circle-made or Circle-endorsed.† (source)
- The stakes are higher: bigger money, more sponsorship and endorsement deals.† (source)
- I heard that even though Michael Jordan's retired, he's still getting forty million dollars in endorsements.† (source)
- What I saw was that the protests did worse than that; they gave aid and comfort to the idiots who endorsed the war—they made that war last longer.† (source)
- I've even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he'll endorse the idea.† (source)
- Offers poured in from ten thousand sources but the bulk of the communications were from faith healers, project promoters, institutes and free-lance researchers offering their services in exchange for the publicity, Shrike cultists and other religious zealots pointing out that Rachel deserved the punishment, requests from various advertising agencies for product endorsements, offers from media agents to "handle" Rachel for such endorsements, offers of sympathy from common people-frequently enclosing credit chips, expressions of disbelief from scientists, offers from holie producers and book publishers for exclusive rights to Rachel's life, and a barrage of real estate offers.† (source)
- Endorsements did not come much more glowing than that.† (source)
- Do the values endorsed by Shakespeare lead directly to the horrors of apartheid?† (source)
- For every business that now refused to sell him goods, there were a dozen more that fawned over him and accepted his notes endorsed by H. S. Campbell or secured by the assets of the Warner Glass Bending Company.† (source)
- The chief expected us to disavow any such absurdities before he could endorse our church.† (source)
- That doesn't sound too good, sounds like an endorsement of nonconformity.† (source)
- With a clarity that was both surprising and somehow ominous he saw himself pulling the Camaro up to the drive-in window of the Boulder Bank the day before he had finished Fast Cars and dropping his check for four hundred and fifty dollars, made out to cash and endorsed on the back, into the tray (perhaps even then the guys in the sweatshops had been talking vacation?† (source)
- I think most people had accepted it, and it had obviously been endorsed by the village elder.† (source)
- Conventional advertisers have preconceived ideas about what makes an advertisement work: humor, splashy graphics, a celebrity endorser.† (source)
- This way, they assert their superiority over Nasuada, gain control over us through fealty, and also get the benefit of having a Rider endorse Nasuada in public.† (source)
- Now that was an endorsement.† (source)
- "Fabulous," Annie endorsed.† (source)
- "We are not basically in the food business," Sonneborn once told a group of Wall Street investors, expressing an unsentimental view of McDonald's that Kroc never endorsed.† (source)
- A week later its board endorsed her effort.† (source)
- All five of the states that vied for the right to prosecute York and Latham endorse judicial homicide: Florida (electrocution),Tennessee (electrocution), Illinois (electrocution), Kansas (hanging), and Colorado (lethal gas).† (source)
- Not a ringing endorsement, but the truth.† (source)
- He was packing his overnight bag when Marie-Claude came into the room, chatting about the guests at the party, energetically endorsing the views of some and laughing off the views of others.† (source)
- They wanted to track him down at the state pen or the funny farm and build the whole campaign around his ancient and fabled deeds and his endorsement of the product.† (source)
- Latin American theologians had developed the doctrine, and in the late 1960s Latin America's Catholic bishops had endorsed some of its tenets.† (source)
- But Harris's theory was duly endorsed by a slate of heavyweights.† (source)
- In the space of a single productive minute, therefore, he might endorse twenty separate documents each advising him to pay absolutely no attention to any of the others.† (source)
- Perhaps they've asked for his personal endorsement.† (source)
- The invitation seemed like the ultimate endorsement ...and not one to be turned down lightly.† (source)
- He had a state-endorsed mandate to tie down disobedient little girls with leather straps.† (source)
- Acting, therefore, in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately.† (source)
- I am— I can't begin to— Could I use that endorsement for my product line?† (source)
- Benjamin Rush wrote from Philadelphia, warmly endorsing the prospect of his old friend as Vice President.† (source)
- Despite the official endorsement, their faces still showed the doubt and fear they felt.† (source)
- My father was so clearly disheartened by her plan that he could barely muster the requisite endorsement (but then, he had no other options).† (source)
- Tom was too far into their game to suggest anything but wholehearted endorsement now.† (source)
- Glen broached the idea with the principal, who not only endorsed it but also arranged for the boys' classes to be accelerated so they could enlist early.† (source)
- "If his designs click, it could be worth a considerable amount to be the top endorser," Roarke agreed.† (source)
- "Please don't take this as an endorsement of your suicidal plans," he said, "but if you should succeed in your mad quest ...and should happen to encounter Miss Wren along the way ...you might consider ...I mean, might you consider ..."† (source)
- He also remembered people from his own experience who would have endorsed this Qualityless world.† (source)
- Tappan further assured him that statements would be made letting the press know unequivocally that the man's involvement was in no way an endorsement of the abolitionist cause.† (source)
- The National Executive formally endorsed the preliminary decision of the Working Committee.† (source)
- Although Adam never endorsed anyone, I didn't hesitate to let our comrades know who was favored.† (source)
- But Archie had overcome them as usual, pointing out that Leon's need for an endorsement from The Vigils was a symbol of how powerful the organization had become.† (source)
- At the age of forty, Dr. Robert Stadler addressed the nation, endorsing the establishment of a State Science Institute.† (source)
- Using the phone on Fredi's desk in the marine science classroom, Oscar dialed the 800 number and eventually got through to Kevin Luebke, one of the company's endorsement managers.† (source)
- The Good Friday Agreement, overwhelmingly endorsed by the people on both sides of the Border, holds out the prospect of a peaceful long-term future for Northern Ireland, and the whole island of Ireland.† (source)
- He used to skate for endorsements, but now he brushes all that stuff aside.† (source)
- But it is not as if the Council is endorsing and supporting him, or his son.† (source)
- We shouldn't have to pay for stuff we hate, and I don't want to pay for a health care program that endorses legalized abortions.† (source)
- Half of the men endorsed the Emancipation Proclamation, a quarter opposed it, and the other quarter did not register an opinion.† (source)
- My classmates and I, with our zealous endorsement of the cadre's contempt for Bentley, had indeed helped create something unseen in the class of 1967.† (source)
- The monastery from which they had departed was only partly visible above the upper reaches of the treetops; high in the air above it, a twisting line of smoke endorsed the heavens.† (source)
- I could tell that Nathan had warmed immediately to this proposal, or endorsement, nodding vigorously while in my own wound-up zeal I continued to embellish the outlines of the travelogue.† (source)
- I endorsed it, didn't I?† (source)
- But Nebraska did not endorse the position of its junior Senator.† (source)
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Uga not only ate Jim Dandy dog ration, but he officially endorsed it too.
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endorsed = gave public support for
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But those endorsements would have to wait.
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endorsements = public support for products in return for payment
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Williams stepped down from the stand to await the endorsement of his friends and the conclusion of the trial.
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endorsement = public support (in this case testimony in trial)
- Kathy knew her kids would endorse the plan.† (source)
- They hadn't been buried in the same grave — no need to endorse the scandal.† (source)
- I'd already spent all of my remaining product endorsement dough.† (source)
- Snatches rang back from the barn, as if endorsing only a fraction of his words.† (source)
- I'M SURE THAT IF THE HEADMASTER HAD PROPOSED THE CHANGE, THE FACULTY WOULD HAVE ENDORSED IT.† (source)
- He'll endorse it, she'll cash it for him; with her name, at her bank, she'll have no problems.† (source)
- With the endorsement deals taken care of, I continued to sort through my e-mail messages.† (source)
- The Jesus I know would endorse that, I think.† (source)
- If what she said was true he didn't want to endorse it.† (source)
- It stirred up some press, and who endorsed the volume by contributing an introduction.† (source)
- We can't give people the impression that we're endorsing that speech!† (source)
- I had Jerry to endorse the line when it was ready.† (source)
- Instead, they endorsed Admiral Nimitz's plan of a frontal attack against the Japanese mainland.† (source)
- It wasn't necessary for Adam to come out publicly and endorse candidates.† (source)
- I'll make the calls without your official endorsement.† (source)
- We'll get you an endorsement deal with Thor, and you'll start a fashion trend.† (source)
- Who's said anything about endorsing it?" snapped Mr. Thompson.† (source)
- Well, maybe not about the endorsement deal with Thor—but you have real talent, Blitzen.† (source)
- She made some noise about going on the market with it, endorsing.† (source)
- He left, on the day when Robert Stadler endorsed the establishment of a State Science Institute.† (source)
- I won't say money changed hands but the endorsement the hospital's C.O. signed read FORWARDED.† (source)
- And I must add that I heartily endorse such a public-spirited project.† (source)
- Buddhist and Brahminical wisdom endorsed metempsychosis—the transmigration of the soul into a new body after death; Platonists defined the body as a "prison" from which the soul escaped; and the Stoics called the soul apospasma tou theu—"a particle of God"—and believed it was recalled by God upon death.† (source)
- By even allowing a balloting, I would be requesting that you endorse a man who Vatican Law proclaims ineligible.† (source)
- "When we make a split-second decision," Payne says, "we are really vulnerable to being guided by our stereotypes and prejudices, even ones we may not necessarily endorse or believe."† (source)
- Belknap still did not like Holmes, but he found his candor sufficiently disarming that when Holmes asked him to endorse a note for $2,500 to help cover the cost of a new house in Wilmette for himself and Myrta, Belknap agreed.† (source)
- Langdon had to admit it seemed far-fetched, and yet the pentacle seemed to endorse the idea on some level.† (source)
- My endorsement clearly isn't enough to start a word-of-mouth epidemic, yet there are restaurants that to my mind aren't any better than the one in my neighborhood that open and within a matter of weeks are turning customers away.† (source)
- You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possibly, depending on your personal belief system, spiritual risks ensuing from your personal reaction to said physical risk.† (source)
- They were old ....walking death ....liberals who would follow the Pope, endorsing science in his memory, seeking modern followers by abandoning the ancient ways.† (source)
- In the early 1630s, Galileo had wanted to publish a book endorsing the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system, but the Vatican would not permit the book's release unless Galileo included equally persuasive evidence for the church's geocentric model-a model Galileo knew to be dead wrong.† (source)
- Asking Jacques Saunière to endorse a manuscript on goddess worship was as obvious as asking Tiger Woods to endorse a book on golf.† (source)
- Not surprisingly, given Roosevelt's power in Washington, the politicians of the fair's National Commission strongly endorsed his plan.† (source)
- How can you possibly endorse that!† (source)
- I was paid to endorse products.† (source)
- His best guess was that a naked human form was yet another endorsement of Venus—the goddess of human sexuality.† (source)
- I'd also received several endorsement-deal offers from companies who wanted to use Parzival's name and face to sell their services and products.† (source)
- Jonas had chosen ten big names in the art world and sent them all sections of the manuscript along with a polite letter asking if they would be willing to write a short endorsement for the jacket.† (source)
- But I couldn't do that until I had some money, and my first endorsement checks wouldn't be deposited for another day or two.† (source)
- By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.† (source)
- As soon as the first endorsement payment arrived in my account, I bought a one-way bus ticket to Columbus, Ohio, set to depart at eight the following morning.† (source)
- These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time.† (source)
- I replied to every single one of the endorsement inquires, saying that I would accept their offers under the following conditions: I wouldn't have to reveal my true identity, and I would only do business through my OASIS avatar.† (source)
- The RLR-7800 was a not-yet-available-to-the-plebian-masses prototype, but I had an endorsement deal with Dinatro, so they sent me free gear (shipped to me through a series of remailing services, which I used to maintain my anonymity).† (source)
- He also understood that Nyström's visit was off the record, although endorsed by the highest authorities within the Security Police.† (source)
- So I got sullen and told him to put his orders in writing — with a certified copy so that I could keep the original and endorse the copy over to the team commander.† (source)
- Not exactly a ringing endorsement.† (source)
- Still, by staging the meeting in Orik's pavilion, Arya had strengthened Eragon's case and undercut his critics, without appearing to endorse or attack either.† (source)
- Raymond, Govan, and Kathy, however, insisted that although such a visit could be explained away as a family matter, it would be interpreted by many people inside and outside as a sign of my endorsement of the man and his policies.† (source)
- They were always much thicker than formerly, for in between the sheet bearing his last endorsement and the sheet added for his new endorsement were the sheets bearing the most recent endorsements of all the other officers in scattered locations who were also occupied in signing their names to that same official document.† (source)
- Gary Ezzo, who in the Babywise book series endorses an "infant-management strategy" for moms and dads trying to "achieve excellence in parenting," stresses how important it is to train a baby, early on, to sleep alone through the night.† (source)
- He knew that in any popularity contest among English teachers, this latter argument which bolstered their authority would win overwhelming endorsement.† (source)
- He became involved in the business side of the company, expanding our Internet operations (Korie's dad, Johnny Howard, was selling our merchandise through a catalog and online before she and Willie bought the operation) while also landing us new sponsors and endorsement deals.† (source)
- It is significant that a widely respected veteran in the field of forensic psychiatry, Dr. Joseph Satten of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, consulted with Dr. Jones and endorsed his evaluations of Hickock and Smith.† (source)
- She hardly needs my endorsement—† (source)
- The endorsement caused a sensation.† (source)
- The Koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as a man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son.† (source)
- In 1984 he quit his job as a computer salesman and organized his first "success seminar:' The appearance of Ronald Reagan at one of these events soon encouraged other celebrities to endorse Peter Lowe's work.† (source)
- Another reason, the simplest, the ugliest, was that this hitherto peaceful congregation of neighbors and old friends had suddenly to endure the unique experience of distrusting each other; understandably, they believed that the murderer was among themselves, and, to the last man, endorsed an opinion advanced by Arthur Clutter, a brother of the deceased, who, while talking to journalists in the lobby of a Garden City hotel on November 17, had said, "When this is cleared up, I'll wager whoever did it was someone within ten miles of where we now stand.† (source)
- Chief Luthuli, who was presiding, announced that even though the ANC had endorsed a decision on violence, "it is a matter of such gravity I would like my colleagues here tonight to consider the issue afresh."† (source)
- He wanted to convey a message that he was sure the other guys would endorse: "People refer to us as heroes.† (source)
- Any such suggestion or any endorsement of any such suggestion would be poison to the value of Raison Pharmaceutical stock.† (source)
- When the printer published a first American edition, Jefferson's endorsement appeared prominently on the title page and was attributed to the Secretary of State.† (source)
- Fish endorsed one of Supreme Beef's central arguments: a ground beef processor should not be held responsible for the bacterial levels of meat that could easily have been tainted with Salmonella at a slaughterhouse.† (source)
- To quell local suspicions, arrangements had been made for the vice minister of justice, who was in charge of Russia's prisons, to come to Tomsk and endorse the project and pih's new role in it, in front of tv cameras.† (source)
- At the behest of a joint planning council consisting of Dr. Moroka, Walter, J. B. Marks, Yusuf Dadoo, and Yusuf Cachalia, the ANC conference endorsed a resolution calling upon the government to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the pass laws, and stock limitation laws by February 29, 1952.† (source)
- Jefferson, on receiving an early copy, promptly passed it on to a Philadelphia printer with a note warmly endorsing it as the answer to "the political heresies that have sprung up among us."† (source)
- What he endorsed, he said, was the guilt some rich people felt toward the poor, because it could cause them to part with some of their money.† (source)
- There's some talk about the way she bragged about a new product she was going to endorse, and a video.† (source)
- Most of "tb" endorsed the idea, and in a final compromise, who placed the second-line antibiotics in an annex to its essential drugs list.† (source)
- When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.† (source)
- The headliner gets to pick her fashions at a wholesaler's discount, an endorsement fee for each wearing.† (source)
- While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.† (source)
- Africans want to be allowed to live where they obtain work, and not be endorsed out of an area because they were not born there.† (source)
- Acting, therefore, in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of the Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately: First: To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.† (source)
- "No state but one populated by mollycoddles,"complained one Senator well aware of the raging anti-German sentiment back home, "would endorse what Norris is trying to do."† (source)
- He was an able politician, but on more than one occasion he chose to speak out in defense of a position no politician with like ambitions would have194 endorsed.† (source)
- The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act could not have gained him many votes in industrialized Ohio, for those who endorsed its curbs on union activity were already Taft supporters; but it brought furious anti-Taft reprisals during the 1950 Senate campaign by the unions in Ohio, and it nourished the belief that Taft could not win a Presidential contest, a belief which affected his chances for the nomination in 1952.† (source)
- She loved the notion of actually being able to track the effect of her tastes and endorsements.† (source)
- Before I was done, two little boys flanked me and added shrill endorsements, along with clog steps.† (source)
- Although the material was well documented and had been covered by others, Faukman had no intention of printing Advance Reading Copies of Langdon's book without at least a few endorsements from serious historians and art luminaries.† (source)
- Thus, typical endorsements on the official documents might read, 'John Milton is a sadist' or 'Have you seen Milton, John?'† (source)
- They were always much thicker than formerly, for in between the sheet bearing his last endorsement and the sheet added for his new endorsement were the sheets bearing the most recent endorsements of all the other officers in scattered locations who were also occupied in signing their names to that same official document.† (source)
- The pih project in Peru could be replicated, and some of what was needed were endorsements from "academics with clout" and the support of "the tb community."† (source)
- "It was in the afternoon paper—the endorsement," Sadie elaborated.† (source)
- The paper publishes my endorsement of Callahan for the Senate nomination.† (source)
- "I have endorsed Callahan," the Judge said.† (source)
- It would tell you to withdraw your endorsement of Callahan.† (source)
- He stopped every attempt to draw Mrs. Gail Wynand into public life—to head committees, sponsor charity drives, endorse crusades.† (source)
- He had endorsed the attitude taken up by a reactionary paper towards Haller's opinions; a stupid bull-necked paper, fit for an officer on half-pay, not for a man of learning.† (source)
- On March 5, 1949, the memorandum appeared in the magazine, under the title "Hiroshima's Idea" — an idea that, Cousins' introductory note said, "the editors enthusiastically endorse and with which they will associate themselves": The people of Hiroshima, aroused from the daze that followed the atomic bombing of their city on August 6, 1945, know themselves to have been part of a laboratory experiment which proved the long-time thesis of peacemakers.† (source)
- Where, to be allowed with love, would be the endorsement of the world, that it was not the barren confusion distant dry fears hinted and whispered, but was necessary, justified, the justification proved by joy.† (source)
- I discovered that it was not wise to be seen reading books that were not endorsed by the Communist party.† (source)
- She was an extremely handsome and well-kept woman of the beauty and social position which had, five years before, commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing, with photographs, a beauty product which she had never used.† (source)
- We have fully consulted them, and I have received from their Prime Ministers, Mr. Mackenzie King of Canada, Mr. Menzies of Australia, Mr. Fraser of New Zealand, and General Smuts of South Africa—that wonderful man, with his immense profound mind, and his eye watching from a distance the whole panorama of European affairs—I have received from all these eminent men, who all have Governments behind them elected on wide franchises, who are all there because they represent the will of their people, messages couched in the most moving terms in which they endorse our decision to fight on, and declare themselves ready to share our fortunes and to persevere to the end.† (source)
- At the party convention of 1860 a plank endorsing the Declaration of Independence was almost hissed down and was saved only by the threat of a bolt by the antislavery element.† (source)
- Maybe somebody might give Callahan a little shovelful on somebody else and Callahan might grow a conscience all of a sudden and repudiate his endorser.† (source)
- —I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no doubt in question.† (source)
- A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed.† (source)
- Wilson resumed: "We not only grant that claim, but we welcome it and strongly endorse it.† (source)
- I have endorsed a resolution on your memorandum and sent it to the committee.† (source)
- Porthos shrugged his shoulders; Aramis by a movement of his lips endorsed Athos.† (source)
- Herr Settembrini pressed his lips together, and so Hans Castorp hurried to add that he himself, of course, would refrain from taking sides or endorsing any viewpoint, but he had found it worth listening to what Naphta said about the desires of youth.† (source)
- And before that there would have to be all the bother of making out a contract, and getting some really responsible person—a banker, say—to endorse it.† (source)
- The man who travelled, loud-stepping, the direct line to the cabin door, he let alone—though he watched him vigilantly until the door opened and he received the endorsement of the master.† (source)
- Furthermore, to no class is the indiscriminate endorsement of the recent course of the South toward Negroes more nauseating than to the best thought of the South.† (source)
- Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.† (source)
- There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.† (source)
- For, knowing that my grandmother never agreed with her, and not being quite confident that it was her own opinion which the rest of us invariably endorsed, she wished to extort from us a wholesale condemnation of my grandmother's views, against which she hoped to force us into solidarity with her own.† (source)
- He wanted to endorse Miss Quested's remark that big people are not interesting, because he was bigger himself than many an independent chief; at the same time, he must neither remind nor inform her that he was big, lest she felt she had committed a discourtesy.† (source)
- I have done myself the honour of counting you one trusting friend, and such endorsement is dear to me.† (source)
- Local thunders were no longer endorsed, and the group of little states that composed the agency discovered this and began comparing notes with fruitful result.† (source)
- And the honest drover, in his warmth, endorsed this moral sentiment by firing a perfect feu de joi at the fireplace.† (source)
- There were a great many bundles of papers on it, some endorsed as Allegations, and some (to my surprise) as Libels, and some as being in the Consistory Court, and some in the Arches Court, and some in the Prerogative Court, and some in the Admiralty Court, and some in the Delegates' Court; giving me occasion to wonder much, how many Courts there might be in the gross, and how long it would take to understand them all.† (source)
- But modern science has not endorsed these designations, and this mollusk is now known by the name argonaut.† (source)
- She quoted technical terms casually, pronounced the grand words of order, the future, foresight, and constantly exaggerated the difficulties of settling his father's affairs so much, that at last one day she showed him the rough draft of a power of attorney to manage and administer his business, arrange all loans, sign and endorse all bills, pay all sums, etc. She had profited by Lheureux's lessons.† (source)
- It will suffice, then, to tell them that at the moment at which, discouraged by so many fruitless investigations, we were about to abandon our search, we at length found, guided by the counsels of our illustrious friend Paulin Paris, a manuscript in folio, endorsed 4772 or 4773, we do not recollect which, having for title, "Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign of King Louis XIV."† (source)
- So he knew (and better than she herself) the long story of the bills, small at first, bearing different names as endorsers, made out at long dates, and constantly renewed up to the day, when, gathering together all the protested bills, the shopkeeper had bidden his friend Vincart take in his own name all the necessary proceedings, not wishing to pass for a tiger with his fellow-citizens.† (source)
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I asked her to indorse me to these people, and then leave me.†
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unconventional spelling: Today we more commonly use endorse.
- My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.† (source)
- We must sincerely indorse this move, and on behalf of the citizens of Charleston extend to your our most cordial invitation to have you come to us, that we may honour you who have done so much by your life and work to honour us.† (source)
- Fifty times had Ezra Stowbody informed the public that Carol had once asked, "Shall I indorse this check on the back?"† (source)
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unconventional spelling: Today we more commonly use endorsed.
- Persons behind me know what I am doing with my right hand—they will indorse you if you tell correctly.† (source)
- The substitution of /i/ for /e/ in such words as /indorse/, /inclose/ and /jimmy/ is of less patent utility, but even here there is probably a slight gain in euphony.† (source)
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Young Marston was a fairly reckless car driver—had his licence endorsed twice and he ought to have been prohibited from driving in my opinion.
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endorsed = updated with a violation added to the driving record (British)
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