Sentence examples for asked for authorization from inspiring English sources
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 same proposal asked for authorization of a proposal for subways in the city by the state of New Jersey.
In one case reviewed by The Times, a woman who had been shot asked for authorization to consult with a psychologist.
At the time of the decease, the relatives of the patients were asked for authorization to perform the medical autopsy.
Three human brains were provided by the Department of Pathology of the Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Madrid, Spain); at the time of the decease, the relatives of these patients were asked for authorization to perform the medical autopsy.
"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.
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".
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.
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.
