Sentence examples similar to authorize or refuse from inspiring English sources

As a remarkable story in the Times about the drone campaign made clear, and as my colleague Amy Davidson has already commented upon, Obama regularly oversees "Terror Tuesday" meetings at which he authorizes (or refuses to authorize) individual strikes in places like Yemen and Somalia.

The Amnesty Committee was authorized to grant or refuse amnesty to individuals who committed human rights abuses.

Exclusion criteria for detailed review of notes included: no documented communication before death, clinical notes limited to post mortem discharge summary, and communications with someone other than a person authorized to give or refuse consent.

Fuck 'em! That's what they say about my loved ones every time they deny a claim or refuse to authorize treatment.

As a member of the patent board for several years, while the law authorized a board to grant or refuse patents, I saw with what slow progress a system of general rules could be matured.

3. The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to refuse to issue said permit when, after investigation of all of the facts and circumstances pertinent to said application, he believes it to be proper to refuse the issuance thereof; provided, however, that said permit shall only be refused for the purpose of preventing riots, disturbances or disorderly assemblage.

As table 2 shows 55.6% of respondents believed when an aggressive treatment works, physicians should not be authorized to refuse the treatment even if they believe it is not worth trying because of the patient's poor prognosis.

At the Bishops' spring conference, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick failed to inform the bishops about Ratzinger's letter authorizing them to refuse Communion to pro-choice congregants or politicians.

Last week, in a series of votes demonstrating lawmakers' ambivalence about the Kosovo conflict, the House refused to fund a ground war unless Congress authorizes it, refused to invoke the War Powers Resolution either to declare war on Yugoslavia or to withdraw U.S. forces from the region, and refused to endorse the ongoing air war.

The amendment clarifies that RFRA does not "authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or United States military service".

Now, it explicitly "does not authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide service, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or United States military service".