A decision must be made within 40 days or the site is automatically approved.

He also says anything worth less than £10m was automatically approved.

The matter is usually approved almost automatically, but that is not likely to be the case this year.

Until September 1988, their applications were approved almost automatically.

These requests are circulated to committee members and automatically approved if no one objects by a set date.

After that, the permit is automatically approved, and the law makes it nearly impossible for anyone to file an appeal.

Under the city's uniform land-use review process, the board had to vote on the plan by Monday or it would have been approved automatically.

The proposal also called for a simpler appeals process, and conditions under which some permits could be approved automatically.

In those days, if a close relative wanted to take the child in, the court almost automatically approved.

In practice, this means that the judges are nominated by the government and automatically approved by the President.