The phrase "a request to authorize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you are formally asking for permission or approval for something, typically in a professional or official context.
Example: "I am submitting a request to authorize the budget for the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "a plea for approval" or "a petition for authorization."
WASHINGTON -- A proposal that would delay a possible U.S. military strike and give Syria's government 45 days to come into compliance with an international chemical weapons treaty could get a vote in the Senate as it considers the president's request to authorize force.
WASHINGTON – Calling the use of chemical weapons "a barbarous act," House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday he will support President Obama's request to authorize force against the Syrian government and also said he was confident his fellow lawmakers would do the same.
But Mr. Cole, whose district includes the massive Tinker Air Force Base, leans strongly against President Obama's request to authorize military force against Syria.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold the public hearing on Tuesday to consider the administration's request to authorize force.
Deborah Sontag (NYT) ISRAEL: SETTLERS ACT -- Jewish settlers in the West Bank, angry that the government has turned down from 60 to 70 requests to authorize new construction, said they would start carrying out their expansions illegally.
The memorandum was issued in response to a request from the agency to authorize a slate of interrogation techniques to be used in secret jails abroad.
Among the proposals is a plan to restrict the power for senior police officers to self-authorise access to people's phone and web browsing records to investigations of crimes that carry a prison sentence of at least six months; and the creation of a new body to authorize requests for communications data, i.e. rather than letting police officers or senior civil servants sign off on such requests.
Incompetent F.B.I. officials in Washington turned down a field request in late August to authorize a more thorough investigation of possible links between Mr. Moussaoui and Islamic terrorist groups that might be planning a hijacking operation.
Judge Zepeda asked the Supreme Court to authorize a request for his extradition.
Lebanon, the council's only current Arab member, presented the Arab League's request to the council to authorize a no-flight zone to protect Libyan civilians.
