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The phrase "authority to acquire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is granted the power or permission to obtain something, such as assets, property, or rights.
Example: "The committee has the authority to acquire new land for the expansion of the park."
Alternatives: "permission to obtain" or "power to purchase".
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"Titles are simultaneously the most difficult and the easiest symbols of authority to acquire.
3511, related to authority to acquire low-cost interests in land, prior to repeal by Pub.
Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for the city's law department, said the lawsuit "challenges the city's authority to acquire cemetery property for the airport expansion".
The Contractor is granted the authority to acquire such excess property as the Contractor may determine to be appropriate in the judgment of the Contractor to support the programs, services, functions, and activities operated pursuant to this Contract.
3513, added items 2663 and 2664 and struck out former item 2663 "Acquisition" and items 2672 "Authority to acquire low-cost interests in land", 2672a "Acquisition: interests in land when need is urgent", and 2676 "Acquisition: limitation".
1431, 1725, substituted "Authority to acquire low-cost interests in land" for "Acquisition: interests in land when cost is not more than $500,000" in item 2672 and added item 2694b.
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There followed decades of internal political strife among various settlements vying for supremacy and between pro- and anti-Byzantine factions; also involved were attempts by church authorities to acquire temporal influence.
As Bennie points out, it is common practice in western Europe for local authorities to acquire and assemble sites, plan them, invest in remediation and infrastructure as necessary to make them viable, and then develop them partly themselves and partly through selling plots to developers.
Yukos Finance is registered in the Netherlands, making it more difficult for the Russian authorities to acquire it in the way they have done with Yukos assets within Russia.
When municipal graveyards began to overfill Ware began negotiations with various local authorities to acquire land for further cemeteries.
The Media Institute, a nonprofit research foundation that focuses on communications policy, warned in its filing that the court's order could be "be applied against media companies as government authorities seek to acquire access to confidential information stored on mobile devices used by journalists".
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