The phrase "authorities to derive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the power or ability of authorities to obtain or extract information or conclusions.
Example: "The government has granted the authorities to derive necessary data from various sources for the investigation."
Alternatives: "powers to obtain" or "authority to extract".
Wuhayshi's authority seems to derive mostly from his long proximity to bin Laden, whom he served for six years as a private secretary in Afghanistan.
Previously, when presidents claimed emergency executive authority, they creatively interpreted specific constitutional clauses to derive authority to act.
However, regarding folic acid, adverse effects associated with high intakes such as the possible progression of neurological symptoms and vitamin B12 deficiency were used by the European Food Safety Authority and other international authorities as a basis to derive an upper intake level even at a time when the potential risks of a daily overdose were not fully understood.
But we are not a theocratic society: moral authority cannot be said to derive from God or God's emissaries on earth.
The government's crusade against whistle-blowers sends the message that the state's strategic interests in acting under the cover of unaccountable secrecy not only outweigh the rights of its citizens, which legitimate governments are instituted to protect, but also the principles of democratic government, from which liberal states are thought to derive the authority to act at all.
Jehovah's Witnesses who regularly visited Stratton refused to seek a permit on the ground that their authority to preach derived from the Bible and not the government.
He said the Apprendi decision "carries out this design by ensuring that the judge's authority to sentence derives wholly from the jury's verdict".
He held that the authority to rule derives from the people — for people have a natural right to govern themselves.
The right to self-defense against illegal attack--from which the law enforcement authorities derive their right to intervene--is by no means an unconditional license to kill.
He is an authority figure whose authority derives from his strategic willingness to deconstruct that authority.
