The phrase "authority to allow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or power to grant approval is being discussed.
Example: "The manager has the authority to allow employees to work from home on Fridays."
Alternatives: "permission to grant" or "power to permit".
DeMarco argues that he has no authority to allow principal reduction because his mandate is to minimize taxpayers' losses.
The World Health Organization (WHO), "the only body with the necessary international authority" to allow such experimental treatments, "must take on this greater leadership role", they said.
The bill also gives the secretary of health and human services the authority to allow the drugs and vaccines to be used without government approval in an emergency.
"The federal security director has the authority to allow those on official business at the airport to bypass the magnetometers if escorted, but not for a flight".
The officials have pressed the authority to allow planes weighing more than 100,000 pounds to land at Teterboro, used now by small aircraft.
Both bids would allow hunting, and the National Park Service can seek Congressional authority to allow guns on the land, Mr. Patterson said.
The department's air-freight agent needed special permission from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to allow Aerocom's old Moldova-registered Ilyushin 67 transport plane to land in Britain.
It is essential, therefore, that those who are urging the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to allow sex selection for family "balancing" examine the situation in all its complexity.
Earlier this year, lawyers representing a number of city bars asked the State Liquor Authority to allow drinks to be served between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., an exception it has made only for New Year's Eve.
As it was, the Australian federal government granted the reef a measure of protection instead, creating the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to allow for wiser management in the future.
Virgin Money is understood to be poised to apply for a banking licence from the Financial Services Authority to allow it to take deposits and offer mortgages for the first time.
