The phrase "authorities to isolate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the power or responsibility of authorities to separate or quarantine individuals or groups for safety or health reasons.
Example: "In response to the outbreak, the government granted authorities to isolate affected individuals to prevent further spread of the disease."
Alternatives: "powers to quarantine" or "ability to separate".
Few dispute the state's authority to isolate people with an infectious disease like tuberculosis.
Certificate revocation provides the authority to isolate any malicious nodes or regain the nodes which turn up to its best state after any attack or failure.
Presidents then must make the most of their public authority both to isolate opponents and leverage power against other institutions.
Writing in 1988, Ramiz Alia reiterated the Albanian view that, "The revisionist current most dangerous to the world communist movement has been and still is Soviet revisionism" and that, "To oppose the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which had great political and theoretical authority, meant to isolate oneself, at least for a time, from most of the communist parties of the world.
The authorities have tried to isolate protesters by disrupting phone networks, blocking text-messaging services, closing access to many news websites and making it difficult for reporters inside Iran to transmit to other countries.
Andrei Lankov, an expert on North Korea, noted in his book The Real North Korea that when he lived in Pyongyang in the 1980s, "the authorities took care to isolate the populace not only from the foreign media but also from the official publications of earlier years".
When SARS reappeared in Guangdong this winter, people were justifiably confident that health authorities had the experience to isolate and contain it.
After the end of the operation, the authorities had the duty to isolate the peddlers in a pesthouse.
With this in mind, Bashar al-Assad replaced by an authority that would agree to isolate Iran would favor the interests of the E.U. and Washington, but also the rival Arab countries in the Persian Gulf (mainly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates), and to another extent Israel (depending on the nature of post-Assad government).
"The lie is aimed to tarnish the international prestige and authority of the D.P.R.K. and to isolate the D.P.R.K. on a worldwide scale," the newspaper said.
