Possible Clues:

• Authorise bill with tick
• Give a stamp of approval
• Recognise there's little time to lose before democratic reforms
• Officially recognise deferred payment after bill
• Attribute (something to)
• Do something about left-of-centre communist? I approve
• Approve, as a university
• Authorize a copy to be read aloud with it
• Approve of performance having cried terribly in the course of it
• Recognise