Sentence examples for approval to act from inspiring English sources
The president would have had to return to Congress for a second approval to act unilaterally.
Mr. Draghi is arguably more powerful, because the European Central Bank controls the currency printing presses and does not need legislative or popular approval to act.
Obama said he did not expect to ask Congress for approval to act and restated his opposition to deploying US ground troops, saying the plan would be similar to counter-terrorism campaigns waged over the past six years.
It is decentralized, individually autonomous and requires no stamp of approval to act on its behalf.
The advantage of this strategy is that it is something Obama can do right now, without waiting for congressional approval to act.
When the Taliban arrive in a village, I discovered, it takes 96 hours for an Army commander to obtain necessary approvals to act.
He had told her so, saying that the standing committee of his diocese — without whose approval he was powerless to act — would never approve a self-declared lesbian for ordination; nor, in all honesty, did he think the time had yet come for so bold a step.
In recent weeks, automakers said they wouldn't actively fight an effort to raise fuel efficiency standards; Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said he would consider supporting the idea; and the Bush administration signaled approval, asking for authority to act on this issue.
Opponents of the pipeline fear the project seems headed for approval, despite Obama's promises to act on climate change in his second term.
It's difficult to imagine any American president who would forgo the right to use force without United Nations approval; even Howard Dean urged Bill Clinton to act unilaterally in Bosnia in 1995.
According to a senior administration official, the new authority was spelled out in a classified document called "Al Qaeda Network Exord," or execute order, that streamlined the approval process for the military to act outside officially declared war zones.
