The phrase "authorities to face" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey a situation where authorities are confronted or challenged, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The community called for the authorities to face the issues of public safety head-on."
Alternatives: "authorities to confront" or "authorities to address".
The polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was handed over to the authorities to face sex charges stemming from the arranged marriages of two teenage girls to older relatives.
"I urge the Chinese authorities to face the election and the referendum with a positive attitude and accept the choices of the Taiwanese people," he said.
Birmingham is one of more than 300 local authorities to face elections tomorrow, alongside elections to the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
A brother of Gerry Adams, the leader of the republican party Sinn Fein, has surrendered to Irish authorities to face 23 charges that he sexually abused his daughter, according to the police.
As he was finishing the movie in September 2009, Polanski was taken into custody at Zurich airport by Swiss police at the request of US authorities to face prosecution in a 1977 child sex case.
Tower Hamlets in London was one of the first local authorities to face up to the bad news when it discovered that fewer than 20percentnt of its residents ever set foot inside a library.
After 12 years in power, during which he has turned Taiwan into one of the region's most vibrant democracies, Mr Lee may feel that only he has the authority to face down communist China.
The Patriot Act was signed and the security, intelligence, defense and justice institutions of the U.S. were given greater capabilities and authority to face the "new" terrorist threat.
Some of our friends on the left lack the credibility, the moral authority to face victims and their families and ask to be trusted to reduce some prison sentences.
But the Chinese authorities need to face some greater truths.
O. J. Simpson surrendered to the authorities today to face charges that he scratched another driver as he pulled off the man's glasses in a roadside argument in December.
