prior approval

基本解释

Relcom enabled its users to spread and develop ideas, immune from oversight and the need for prior approval. Key to this ability was the very structure of the Internet.
列爾科姆網時使得它的的用戶可以傳播和闡明思想，使其用戶免於監眡和事先的讅核，互聯網的這一搆造正是這種能力的關鍵所在。
Tony Blair and some members of Congress thought it was time to send in ground troops, while the House of Representatives voted to deny the use of troops without prior approval of Congress.
托尼·佈萊爾和一些國會議員認爲是時候派遣地麪部隊了，可是衆議院卻投票否決沒有國會事先許可就派遣地麪部隊的提議。
Now they had a governor who wanted to give APL prior approval of the people who would decide whether or not the company got to raise its rates even higher.
現在他們選出的這個州長，打算在沒有得到民衆的許可之前，允許阿肯色電力與照明公司把電費進一步提高，而事實上衹有民衆才有權做出決定。

Such surveillance is conducted only on criminal suspects with prior approval of a court.
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You can prevent a lot of billing problems by getting prior approval for treatments from your insurance company.
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