The phrase “assign authority” is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to mean that someone has been delegated the power to make decisions or take action. For example, "The manager assigned authority to the team lead to make decisions in her absence."
In a special advisory to workers, the new president, David Gunn, said changes approved by Amtrak's board would "streamline decision-making and clearly assign authority and responsibility".
A process focus is not conducive to the rapid introduction of new products, since it does not assign authority along product lines.
On a small scale, this is manifested in our unwillingness to assign authority to figures that are obviously much more studied and experienced in certain matters.
But to assign authority to unelected men whose actual record suggests that they govern based on prejudices rather than analysis is even worse.
They assign authority to a post based on how many links a blog has.
One of the privileges of having a deep voice is that people assign authority to me when I wield it.
A person with a SUNet ID can be assigned authority to do specific tasks in Stanford's business systems.
Under her proposal, employers who do not administer their own health care plans could relieve themselves of liability by assigning authority to a "decision maker," like an insurer.
And a core aspect of Trump's critique is that Google is mistaken in the way that it assigns authority in the first place.
However, four years later the Marshall Court ruled in Little v. Barreme against the assertion that the president could exceed statutorily assigned authority during wartime.
For all of his five-fight amateur career, Newell competed in Massachusetts, where the boxing commission had not yet been assigned authority over M.M.A.
