The phrase "authorized action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or approval is granted for a specific activity or decision.
Example: "The committee has approved the authorized action to proceed with the project."
Alternatives: "approved action" or "permitted action".
PAGE A12 Assisted Suicides Blocked Attorney General John Ashcroft authorized action against doctors who prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients.
Only once, in the 1991 case of the spotted owl, has the panel authorized action that could further jeopardize a species, and in that case planned timber sales were ultimately dropped because of accusations of illegal lobbying.
It was thus in 1964, when Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, it was thus in 1991, when it approved military action in the Persian Gulf, and it was thus once again this week, when it authorized action against Iraq.
The chapter authorized action on a range of serious matters (including on human rights issues in Colombia, campaigns on human rights abuses associated with asylum detention, and action on immigration detention of human trafficking and torture victims).
But the Lavelle incident has a special resonance: in the midst of a disastrous and unpopular war, a President and his closest confederates authorized actions in violation of both the rules and their own stated policies.
White House aides believed, for example, that President Clinton had authorized actions to kill Mr. bin Laden, but C.I.A. officers thought they were legally permitted to kill him only during an attempt to capture him.
These are the kinds of small steps that the president can take in the face of congressional inaction: slightly ramping up enforcement, directing executive branch officials to take certain legally authorized actions.
The role restricts the privileges of a user and defines authorized actions on RMS, such as viewing, editing, and deleting information.
Germany also abstained in the United Nations Security Council's vote authorizing action, joining Russia, China, Brazil and India.
(There was a separate A.U.M.F., in 2002, authorizing action against the government of Saddam Hussein).
It's also being used to authorize action against a host of other groups, though who they are is classified.
