The phrase "authorize actions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the permission or approval of specific activities or tasks, often in a formal or professional context.
Example: "The manager has the authority to authorize actions that align with company policy."
Alternatives: "approve activities" or "grant permissions".
Section 3806 and 3808(b) of title 31, United States Code, authorize actions for collection of civil penalties and assessments imposed under this part and specify the procedures for such actions.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeated on Friday a call for a U.N. Security Council resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows the Council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention.
Resolution 1747 bans arms exports by Iran under Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius suggested that a resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize actions ranging from sanctions to military intervention, might be necessary.
Britain, France, Germany and the United States had wanted the Security Council resolution be placed under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows the council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention.
It's also being used to authorize action against a host of other groups, though who they are is classified.
The logic is straightforward: if it's only the world's democracies that accept the universality of fundamental human rights, then only an organization of such states will authorize action to protect victims of abusive dictators like Robert Mugabe.
It is a problem that has dogged Mr. Kerry since he walked through the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire, and suffered the barbs of Vermont's former governor, Howard Dean, who made Mr. Kerry's vote to authorize action an issue.
The president has spoken frequently about his preference for taking military action only with international backing, but it is likely Russia and China would block U.S. efforts to authorize action through the U.N. Security Council.
A representative from the U.N. International Labor Organization spoke to the pertinent international conventions that authorize action, and the opportunities and obstacles to their implementation, as well as describing an array of good practices that can be deployed to address slavery at sea.
And, if Congress fails to authorize action, paralyzing the President, U.S. national security will indeed suffer as our red-lines will become meaningless, leaving us to be perceived as a paper tiger or a faint-hearted "humanitarian", or both.
