Sentence examples for ask for authorization from inspiring English sources
"How can we assure or tell our constituents that this isn't political when you come, when the administration comes to the Congress to ask for authorization to take action that the president clearly has said he has authority to take?" Flake asked Kerry.
The company did not ask for authorization to provide domestic telephone service in the United States.
And would you hit them again if commanders in the field ask for authorization to do so?
Congressional leaders said late Monday that they do not expect the White House to ask for authorization for his new strategy, according to senior House and Senate aides.
And yet NBC News reported that the majority of the President's national-security staff was against the decision to ask for authorization; the AP said that officials "describe a president overriding all his top national security advisers".
"I hope the president, as soon as we get back to Washington, will ask for authorization from Congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way," Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday".
General Clark asked for authorization to attack the Serbs with Apache missile-firing helicopters, surface-to-surface missiles and artillery.
The proxy also asked for authorization to issue 700 million new shares, the clause that Ms. Carone said was the decisive factor on the proxy's timing.
The organizers have sent sign-up cards to about 150 faculty members, asking for authorization to hold a vote on whether they should be represented by the New York State United Teachers, of the American Federation of Teachers.
If, on the other hand, he decided to go ahead without asking for authorization, the President would risk splitting the country further -- "not an appealing prospect, either," as one of his principal advisers said.
It would be one thing if Congress were clearly the assertive party here — if President Obama had gone to war without asking for authorization, for instance, and had then seen funding for the operation immediately cut off and articles of impeachment issued.
