The phrase "ability to authorize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or power to grant permission or approval for something.
Example: "The manager has the ability to authorize overtime requests for employees."
Alternatives: "power to approve" or "capacity to grant permission".
This is surely true: the Bush Administration has sought to expand executive power in an unprecedented manner, especially with respect to the President's ability to authorize torture, ignore the Geneva conventions, and order the surveillance of citizens.
Couples that register as domestic partners receive enhanced rights, including hospital visitation, the ability to authorize autopsies and organ donations, and the ability to inherit in the absence of a will.
Still, the undeclared wars in Korea and Vietnam have led Congress to want more ability to authorize and oversee the scope and duration of military action and left resistance to open-ended delegations of power to the president.
They cite the 50percentt stake that Simon holds in MerchantWired, a high-speed communications network that will provide retailers with services like the ability to authorize a credit card purchase in less than two seconds.
Questions have emerged about his ability to authorize more US war in Iraq, but the existing logic of addressing an expansively-defined "imminent threat" serves as the administration's ticket to hitting wherever and however it wants.
McCann, a senior policy analyst at the think tank New America, said the Education Department's proposals remove the agency's oversight of accreditors and institutions, limit accreditors' oversight of colleges and eliminate states' ability to authorize institutions enrolling their students.
POAs give you the ability to legally authorize an individual to handle your affairs and make healthcare decisions in the event you become incapacitated and are unable to make them on your own.
The decision restricted the ability of Congress to authorize lawsuits against the states that violated federal rights.
From this came MIT's Kerberos authentication system which enabled authorization--the ability for a server to authorize the authenticated individual to use its resources&emdash;and encryption of the data stream to and from the individual.
The outrage that has been aimed at A.I.G. could complicate the Obama administration's ability to persuade Congress to authorize future bailouts.
The bill would also give the military the ability in many cases to authorize raids, arrest civilians and in some cases carry out investigations.
