The phrase "authority for the second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referencing a source or justification for a second point or argument.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, I found authority for the second argument in the latest report from the IPCC."
Alternatives: "justification for the second" or "source for the second".
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the F.D.A. authority for the first time to regulate tobacco products.
Now, in 2020, the regulators are preparing to use that authority for the first time.
The Romans brought Iberia under a single political authority for the first time but did not try to impose a single culture on the inhabitants.
The measure would give the drug agency the authority for the first time to seek federal criminal prosecutions against those possessing and distributing the drug, officials said.
In Washington today, the Bush administration prepared to provide funds to the Palestinian Authority for the first time, in an effort to help Mr. Abbas.
In one of the key provisions, agencies were given authority for the first time to refuse either to confirm or to deny that certain records existed at all.
"While we don't all turn into pumpkins on Aug. 2, we do as a country lose our borrowing authority for the first time in our history, and that would be a very bad thing," Mr. Carney said.
The new government will reunite Gaza and the West Bank under a single political authority for the first time since 2007, when Hamas – which won Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 – asserted control over the Gaza Strip, forcing out Fatah.
Down the road, still in the zone, the Stars and Stripes now flies over the world's largest American embassy, which opened officially on January 5th.At the start of the year, with the expiry of their UN Security Council mandate, the 146,000-odd American troops across the country also came under the Iraqi government's authority for the first time since the invasion of 2003.
Mr Madrazo, openly snubbing the president's supreme authority for the first time in the PRI's history, stayed put.In this section Fiasco in Tabasco The long arm of Mr Montesinos Foul play Chrétien's October surprise ReprintsIn this year's race, the echoes of 1994 resounded.
