imprimatur

If Putin wanted action in Syria to carry the UN imprimatur, he could make that happen tomorrow.

But when a government official acts without the imprimatur of any law, he or she does so by the sheer force of personal will and power.

The result could be a highly decentralized Amazon alternative with Google's imprimatur, grown from the bottom up.

Unfortunately, once you place the imprimatur of machine learning upon it, people will tend to conflate "perceived safety" with "actual safety.

Both are convenient fictions to allow otherwise objectionable acts to gain the imprimatur of legitimacy.

But the important thing these days isnt a medium for publishingpretty much anyone with an Internet connection can get that for freebut the imprimatur of peer-review, which says, This guy [or gal] knows what hes talking about.

But this would be true of self-published papers, and no one would call that meaningful peer review.> An arXived paper may end up in a traditional journal, but that is merely to provide an imprimatur for the research team who wrote it.

Scientists normally get by without any help from philosophers, so why do they need to get philosophers' imprimatur before they can use the concept of 'consciousness'?Why doesn't the concept of, say, 'the gene' also need this backup?

What does KDE give to those who contribute, and what do we expect of those who carry the imprimatur of a KDE-affiliated project?It's probably touchy-feely and pretty generic, but then KDE has always been kind of amorphous in my experience, for better or worse.