The phrase "authority to instruct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is granted the power or permission to give directions or orders to others.
Example: "The manager has the authority to instruct the team on the new project guidelines."
Alternatives: "power to direct" or "permission to guide".
This board would not have the authority to instruct firms to take specific actions but would report periodically to Congress.
Kapleau received dharma transmission (the authority to instruct others in the practice of Buddhism) from Yasutani and was ordained a monk in 1961.
In a crisis similar to the one that struck two years ago, the banking agency would have authority to instruct the national supervisors to share information and reach common positions.
Additionally, executive email accounts are often compromised, allowing fraudsters to impersonate individuals who have the authority to instruct wire transfers or obtain confidential information.
The proposed National Crime Agency, to replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency, will have the authority to instruct police and other agencies, the home secretary has told the Commons.
In 1825 he became the colonel in chief of the Royal Glamorgan Militia, and used this authority to instruct the militia to vote for his candidates.
13] when public school authorities will undertake to instruct by radio and newspapers the 300,000 Chicago pupils barred from classroom attendance by the infantile paralysis epidemic.
For example, on 29 September 1942 he asked the prime minister to "make friendly representations to the American military authorities asking them to instruct their men that the colour bar is not a custom in this country".
He broke away from talks with Vaclav Claus, the Czech president, to instruct authorities to organise a state funeral.
The memo instructs the staff only to report "major events as per Oil Spill Response Plan" if they attract "the attention of press and/or regulatory authorities" and goes on to instruct: "no reports are to be kept on a routine basis and all previous reports to be removed...and destroyed".
Reading the statute as containing a separate prohibition on all corporations, at least, all state corporations, it substantially declares that any authority given by previous charters to instruct the two races at the same time and in the same place is forbidden, and that prohibition, being a departure from the terms of the original charter in this case, may properly be adjudged an amendment.
