He repeatedly thanked Germany for its contributions to the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, an action that the Parliament authorized after considerable debate over the first deployment of German troops for battle since World War II.
In particular, the surveillance activities published in The Guardian and The Washington Post are lawful and conducted under authorities widely known and discussed, and fully debated and authorized by Congress.
"The surveillance activities published in The Guardian and The Washington Post are lawful and conducted under authorities widely known and discussed, and fully debated and authorized by Congress," Director James R. Clapper pointed out in a widely emailed missive.
In other words: Let's pass a law that before the executive branch can meddle in elections in other people's countries, a proposal to do so has to be debated and authorized - or rejected - by Congress.
After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, and following much internal debate, President George W. Bush authorized a broad expansion of drone strikes against a wide array of targets within Pakistan: Qaeda operatives, Pakistan-based members of the Afghan Taliban insurgency and — in some cases — other militants bent on destabilizing Pakistan.
Mr. McKinnon is working with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to propose a primary debate commission for 2016 that would be empowered to authorize only certain debates.
The authority of the duly authorized hierarchy was enhanced by the outcome of another 2nd-century debate, which concerned the possibility of absolution for sins committed after baptism.
One European diplomat, not authorized to speak publicly, described the debate as "heated".
In adaptation, this means that how we 'story' the environment determines how we understand and practice adaptation, how risks are defined, who is authorized as actors in the change debate, and the range of policy options considered.
In 1999, with broad bipartisan support and almost no public debate or popular notice, Congress authorized an additional $6.6 billion to deploy an antimissile defense system.
The two student elections authorized by the policy, coupled with the debates that presumably must precede each, impermissibly invade that private sphere.
