The phrase "authorities wished" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a desire or intention of official bodies or organizations regarding a particular matter.
Example: "The authorities wished to ensure public safety during the event."
Alternatives: "officials desired" or "the government hoped".
I had been there barely five minutes when I was informed that the authorities wished to speak to me.
"We want them identified and brought to justice," the ministry said, adding that the authorities wished to convey their "profound sadness" to Dedieu's family.
Judge Robert Hendrickson found that the law could not be said to apply and that if local authorities wished to ban such vehicles they should amend the law to include a comma.
While filling out her license application at police headquarters, she was surprised to find that the authorities wished to know if she had ever seen a psychiatrist or taken narcotics.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a onetime WikiLeaks spokesman who has grown estranged from Assange, said in an interview he was contacted by the German federal police in October 2017 and told that U.S. authorities wished to talk to him "about the Manning-Julian connection". He also received a March 2018 letter repeating the request from then-U.
In the same month, Wales' local government minister Carl Sargeant unveiled councils' financial allocations for the coming year, which included £50m in additional funding to freeze council tax if authorities wished.
And for all its speculative lure, there is some logic to the authorities' wishing this financial game away.
The reason it won't happen is that the bargain enshrined in the Nonproliferation Treaty -- the bargain Iranian authorities wish to see fulfilled -- is effectively defunct.
"The Commission understands why, at this particular juncture — because of the dramatic employment situation and the very complex financial environment — the Spanish authorities wish to step back from full free movement," he added.
The event was overshadowed by a row over the authorities' wish to remove a cross placed in front of the presidential palace to commemorate the death of Lech Kaczynski, the previous president, in an air crash in April.Russia announced that it had deployed an air-defence system in Abkhazia, a breakaway territory of Georgia that declared independence after the Russia-Georgia war of 2008.
As noted by Fulcher (2010a), standards are "powerful expressions of what political authorities wish an educational system to deliver in the interests of the nation's future" (p. 226).
