The phrase "authority is needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the necessity of having someone in a position of power or control to make decisions or enforce rules.
Example: "In order to implement these changes effectively, authority is needed to ensure compliance from all team members."
Alternatives: "power is required" or "control is necessary."
No one disputes that this authority is needed in today's world to avoid calamitous bankruptcies and bailouts.
Reviving the proposal on Tuesday, Mr. Harkin said: "Rate review authority is needed to protect consumers from insurance companies' jacking up premiums simply because they can.
To avoid conflicts of interests and questions of authority in overseeing research, a higher level office with agencywide authority is needed, the committee said.
Further, the authority is needed to extend the No. 7 subway line, which would make it easier to get to the stadium.
The Obama administration and the next Congress will need to determine how much more money can be provided and what additional legislative authority is needed to trace contaminants through the food supply and recall tainted products.
You may be right that some authority is needed to help the central government outlive the civil war, but you're wrong that the U.S. military should be that authority.
Systemic regulation and resolution authority are needed.
He said Arab governments agreed that a reformed Palestinian Authority was needed, but rejected Israel's using talk of a new Authority as a code for replacing Mr. Arafat.
But Mr. Shays said the classification authority was needed "to make sure we don't provide a road map to terrorists" of the nation's vulnerabilities.
The ruler's autocratic power could not be infringed, however, because his authority was needed not only to settle special cases but also to promote, protect, and reward members of the ruling group and their clients.
Justice Ginsburg said that no specific authority was needed, given a half-century of general precedent that applied "even to conduct startling in its novelty" — throwing people out of a public government event for views expressed elsewhere.
