The phrase "authorities confused" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where authorities are uncertain or lack clarity about a particular issue or event.
Example: "The sudden change in regulations left the authorities confused about how to enforce the new rules."
Alternatives: "authorities bewildered" or "authorities perplexed".
These protests left local authorities confused and city planners disappointed.
California's water board has been considering tougher wetlands protections for more than a decade, ever since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a set of decisions that left authorities confused about which waters were covered under the act.
The looming federal rollback increased pressure on the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt protections that have been under consideration for more than a decade, ever since a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings left authorities confused about which waters are covered by the federal law.
Does the decision to attempt suicide stem from a " hypersensitive " person with a " fragile mind "? Or is it the reaction to pain and isolation caused by the kind of adolescent cruelty that some authorities confuse with primordial impulses of future leaders?
He says he believes the authorities have confused him with another man, Nabil Ahmed Farag Rezk, with whom his only connection is nine consonants and six vowels.
Security is so strong here that occasionally even the authorities get confused.
I'd venture that, to a first approximation, a recession occurs when the monetary authority is confused into thinking that monetary policy is looser than it actually is.
He "never understood the nature of presidential authority...he confused leadership with popularity as if he were a film actor, and he didn't know how to negotiate politically," says Enrique Krauze, a historian.Certainly he was naive in allowing Marta Sahagún, his ambitious former press secretary and second wife, to give the appearance of sharing presidential power.
He wouldn't have had indistinct chains of authority or confused lines of responsibility or unrestricted flow charts or unresolved internal conflicts or a paucity of interagency meetings or most grievous of all, memos that were not read and acted upon.
Rousseau said she was concerned the authorities were confusing "street demonstrations with threats to national security".
But others fear caregivers could be overzealously prosecuted by authorities who confuse symptoms of terminal dementia with abuse.
