The phrase "able to authorize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing someone's capability or authority to grant permission or approval for something.
Example: "The manager is able to authorize overtime requests for the team."
Alternatives: "capable of granting authorization" or "authorized to approve".
Prior to the new authorities, commanders overseeing the dual training and counterterrorism mission were able to authorize air strikes only in limited circumstances: to defend U.S. personnel; to protect Afghan forces facing serious danger; and to conduct counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda or the Islamic State.
New Haven's Fire Chief, John P. Reardon, said he will not be able to authorize overtime when the vacation season starts in April.
"We risk reaching a point when we won't be able to authorize any landing any longer, a dramatic situation," he said.
But officials were uncertain whether the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, would continue to be able to authorize charter schools in the city, as he has done for the past several years.
With Hugo, patients will be able to authorize researchers to use their data, which can be pulled from disparate EHR systems and will be synchronized, and organized so that it is suitable for research.
That memorandum replaced a much-criticized opinion written in August 2002, which had defined torture as treatment producing pain equivalent to organ failure or death and had suggested that a president might be able to authorize torture under his constitutional war powers.
Long story short, Al-noor was able to get BT to authorize the additional five million.
Oil industry representatives said they were convinced that Republicans in Congress, riding a wave of worries about energy shortages and spurred by an oil-friendly president, would be able to garner sufficient votes to authorize drilling in the reserve.
Your friend will also have to authorize the Facebook app before being able to chat with you.
They will probably not be able to make a competitive offer because no new owner is in place to authorize it.
The new technology will be able to read a new type of credit card that uses a combination of an embedded microchip and a code to authorize transactions.
