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"I'm not authorized to work because of my status".
"I'm not authorized to be frustrated," he said gamely.
"I'm not authorized to tell you" the law firm's name, he said.
"The note said, 'I'm not authorized to tell everybody this at this moment, but as a courtesy I want you to know,' " Mr. Rather said.
He said, 'I'm not authorized to speak.' I said, 'Really?' He said, 'Sorry, that's just the way we do it.' " Washington, where I have reported and edited (and used my share of unnamed sources) for the better part of the last 40 years, is a city steeped in the culture of anonymity.
For example, academics debate whether "Where are you at?" is an idiomatic alternative to "Where are you?" I'm not authorized to say where we should draw the line on these matters.
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But to what end? "Why are you here, armed?" "I am not authorized to tell you".
"I was not authorized to disclose this nonpublic information to outsiders".
"Technically, I was not authorized to make an offer," he explained.
"I am not authorized to say anything about it," he told The Associated Press.
I didn't do anything that I was not authorized to do," he told us when we met in Germany.
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