The phrase "authorities approach" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the method or strategy that authorities take in addressing a particular issue or situation.
Example: "The authorities approach to managing the crisis has been both proactive and effective."
Alternatives: "authorities strategy" or "authorities method".
Similarly, when authorities approach us with evidence of possible misconduct, we always cooperate fully with them.
For a time, the authorities' approach to the problem was repression and stigmatization: Prostitutes would be sent to rehabilitation centers.
There is no sign of that in Russia, where the authorities approach minority languages with neglect and suspicion.
The authorities' approach to this study is a world apart from the way the Army examined the spread of biological poison in the subways in the mid-1960s.
Few things encapsulate the authorities' approach to the 18th congress – the simultaneous desire for fanfare and secrecy – better than state news agency Xinhua's report on plans to update the party's constitution.
"The F.S.B. is of the view that the authorities' approach to shadow banking has to be a targeted one," the group said, pointing to current lax regulation of the sector.
(Several decades later, when Brazilian authorities approached the Txukahamei tribe for the first time, they found half a dozen white captives).
Rainwater had resisted the baseball authorities' approaches to buy the flagging team, but changed his mind after meeting Bush, whose father was then President.
Charity finance professionals have reported to us the huge problems their organisations have experienced as a result of individual local authorities' approaches to implementation of the CSR.
So the authorities approached hedge-fund employees, one by one, confronting them with evidence of their crimes and asking them what else they knew.
The Manifesto Club, an organisation which "campaigns against the hyper-regulation of everyday life", says differing local authorities' approaches have created a "patchwork of criminal law".
