give the go-ahead

Idioms and Phrases

see go ahead , def. 1.

Example Sentences

It is understood the oil companies will accept that the decision to give the go-ahead was unlawful - because the emissions they would create were not properly assessed - and will not challenge it.

From BBC

You wouldn’t know it from reading the byzantine body of case law that now governs capital punishment or watching judges give the go-ahead last week for those executions.

From Slate

As the judges have declined to give the go-ahead for the challenge, this ruling marks the end of the appeal process for Letby.

From BBC

The person’s body lays frozen in the county morgue as the investigators scramble to find family before being forced to give the go-ahead to cremate the remains.

From Seattle Times

Nothing will happen unless Congress and the Biden administration give the go-ahead, and, given that Congress is mired in unproductive rancor and partisanship, the politics appear as hazardous for the salmon as the bottled-up waters of the Snake and the Columbia.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• advocate
• affirm
• approve
• back
• commend
• confirm
• defend
• favor
• okay
• praise
• ratify
• recommend
• sanction
• uphold