The phrase "authorize sanctions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is granting permission or approval for punitive measures or restrictions to be imposed, often in a legal or governmental setting.
Example: "The committee voted to authorize sanctions against the country for its violation of international laws."
Alternatives: "impose sanctions" or "approve sanctions".
Developing countries bitterly oppose making labor standards a matter for the trade organization, which can authorize sanctions.
Today, Arabs stepped up demands for a punitive resolution against Israel that could authorize sanctions and the dispatch of an international monitoring force, essentially to protect the Palestinians.
If there is no appeal, Japan can ask the global trade body to authorize sanctions against American goods to force compliance.
The N.C.A.A. board of directors' decision to go outside its usual process for dealing with infractions, forgoing a long investigation, and authorize sanctions based on the findings of an outside investigation is considered unprecedented.
The Senate bill, passed a day after the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a similar measure, would authorize sanctions against companies that provide Iran with refined petroleum products and would ban most trade between the countries, exempting food and medicine.
An American official said Tuesday that the administration was still considering bringing the Iranian matter before the Security Council, which has the power to authorize sanctions or military action.
Today the W.T.O., by adjudicating trade disputes and authorizing sanctions against violators, arguably constitutes the most effective body of world governance in the history of the planet.
More than 60 laws or executive orders authorizing sanctions -- about half the total since World War I -- have been enacted in the last five years.
China and Russia, which has also expressed reservations about new sanctions on Iran, supported three previous Security Council resolutions that authorized sanctions aimed at Iranian individuals and organizations involved in the nuclear effort.
Under the executive order, President Obama authorized sanctions on any foreign financial institutions that conduct "significant transactions" in the Iranian rial, the national currency, or maintains rial accounts outside Iran.
Consequently, any possible abuses of the judicial system by APTC in initiating either the proceeding in the Indiana court or in this Court can be addressed by the respective courts under applicable statutes authorizing sanctions.
