The phrase "authority to know" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is granted permission or has the right to access certain information.
Example: "As a researcher, I have the authority to know the details of the study's findings."
Alternatives: "right to know" or "permission to access".
Sunni Islam has no clerical hierarchy of the holy — it's tailor-made for nasty arguments among men who dispute one another's authority to know the righteous path.
What rules is the wearer's knowledge, confidence and uncompromising authority to know what looks correct for her figure and in her life.
It doesn't matter how easily a manager can ask a question if there isn't a quick way to understand where the information to answer the question resides and to decide if the questioner has the authority to know the answer.
Identification of the respondent was concealed and only the principal investigator had the authority to know if any verification of information was needed from the participants.
Their descriptions frequently involved them seeing themselves as deviating from a norm of some kind and needing to have their faults corrected in some way by others who were seen as more worthy and having more authority to know what the 'right' course of action was to take.
Due to privacy concerns or monetary restrictions, death records are not published online, but one can go for concerned authority to know about the recently deceased persons.
Few people would be happy for the tax authorities to know about their foreign travel, or for police officers to have routine access to their mental-health records.
Mr Cameron's fall-back would be to allow the eight leading economies the freedom to set up a private register of "beneficial ownership", allowing only law enforcement and tax authorities to know who owns and controls what.
A body of new research is beginning to show that as our digital footprint grows, it becomes ever easier for companies (and in principle, government authorities) to know more precisely who those home buyers are.
Such a move would be win-win for all parties, he suggested, because it would allow the authorities to "know what we are doing, and we can get education and jobs".
