The phrase "authority waiting" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where one is referring to a situation where an authority figure is in a state of waiting or anticipation.
Example: "The authority waiting for the report seemed increasingly impatient as the hours passed."
Alternatives: "waiting for approval" or "awaiting instructions".
At the last count 344,294 households in London were on local authority waiting lists for housing.
There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
In London, the number of households on local authority waiting lists for housing fell from 380,301 in 2012, to 255,729 in 2014.
1.7 million households remain on local authority waiting lists, yet of the 214,000 houses completed in 2007/08, only 28,000 were built by registered social landlords, and just 350 by local authorities.
Local authority waiting lists around the country show that the demand for council housing has rarely been higher: flogging more municipal housing shows a contempt for the tenure and makes no economic sense, since councils are instead forced to house homeless families in expensive temporary accommodation and housing benefit is paid out to private landlords, rather than to councils.
The number of people on waiting lists for council housing stands at 1,240,855 in England, while in Scotland, 173,587 applicants are on local authority waiting lists, with demand in some areas far higher: there are 24,909 applicants in the city of Edinburgh.
"What are the authorities waiting for... serious violence or a death?
And it claims Abbott kept Indonesian authorities waiting during a foreign visit to smooth tensions with Credlin, who was upset to be left out of a meeting with the Indonesian president.
He thinks some of the early issues around the BSF programme have now been addressed: "The process by which local authorities now join the programme has been improved, and the remaining local authorities waiting to join the programme have to pass the 'readiness to deliver' process.
Industry was defensive, NGO's greatly opposing industry views, experts requesting more research, and local authorities waiting for a decision.
For example, in the Mumbai attack case, in 2008, state authorities waited for National Security Guards (NSG) teams to do the operation.
