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Discover LudwigThe phrase "authorize someone to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when granting permission or power to someone to perform a specific action or task.
Example: "The manager will authorize someone to access the confidential files for the project."
Alternatives: "empower someone to" or "permit someone to".
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Why didn't the executive committee authorize someone to represent its new strategic intent on either committee?
This revelation raises a troubling but simultaneously intriguing question – can the police authorize someone to dupe you into sex?
If you authorize someone to be your agent and receive income for you, you are considered to have received it when your agent receives it.
Is this a freedom or a dictatorship?" When I asked Ahmadinejad if he would allow me to interview Mousavi, Karroubi, and Khatami, he said, "Is it up to me to authorize someone to interview someone else?
Those places are: the owner's house, a border crossing (just up until the nearest border crossing, it doesn't authorize someone to transport guns across the US border), a gunsmith, a peace officer to turn in a firearm for destruction or to have it verified, and an approved shooting range in the owner's area.
Authorize someone to make a withdrawal.
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Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves, since obviously no such order is needed.
By preparing a durable power of attorney, which authorizes someone to act as your agent and to handle your finances, you can avoid such problems.
He could dispute McCabe's claim or perhaps argue that being aware of an anonymous source is not the same as authorizing someone to be an anonymous source or being an anonymous source.
1. Durable power of attorney (DPOA), which authorizes someone to act on your behalf should you become physically or mentally incompetent to handle financial matters.
So it should be a rite of passage for every 18-year-old to sign a health care proxy (also known as a health care power of attorney) authorizing someone to make medical decisions on his behalf, if he cant, and a living will (also known as an advance directive) expressing his preferences about certain aspects of end-of-life care.
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