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The phrase "asks you to authorize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when requesting someone to give permission or approval for something, often in formal or professional contexts.
Example: "The application asks you to authorize access to your location data for better service."
Alternatives: "requests your authorization" or "invites you to approve".
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"The attached memorandum asks you to authorize Treasury to proceed to announce and submit their financial services modernization proposal," writes Sperling.
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Clicking on this will first load up Twitter to ask you to authorize the app to see your Twitter location.
Any third-party Twitter app developer can currently ask you to authorize software using OAuth under the pretense that they will not be able to access any of your private – both sent and received – messages, while in fact they easily can.
Greplin has many more social hooks than Google right now (they ask you to authorize third-party services whereas Google, again, is just going after public data), but the search giant promises that today's rollout is just one step in the move towards social.
Once the installation is finished, Skype will ask you to authorize access for the app.
You want to start playing a Facebook game or use an app, and before you can begin, you're asked to authorize the program to post on your Wall, post on your friends' Walls, access all personal information, etc. Don't be fooled by shortened links.
The request asks Congress to authorize the Defense Department to begin studying base realignment, with an eye toward carrying out the plan in 2021.
Obama asks Congress to authorize use of force against ISIS, but key issue has been how it would be worded.
Of course, Mr. Obama has not asked Congress to authorize military action.
Mr. Obama is required by law to ask Congress to authorize more borrowing to cover debts on spending that Congress already authorized.
I have asked Congress to authorize the use of America's military if it proves necessary to enforce UN Security Council demands.
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