Sentence examples similar to authorized to be something from inspiring English sources

The official wasn't authorized to be publicly named.

"I'm not authorized to be frustrated," he said gamely.

The spokesman was not authorized to be publicly named.

The Metro-North press release lends credence to her concern: customers, it says, will be "self-monitoring," though conductors will be authorized to issue something called a "shh card".

That is to say, when one individual was authorized to do something, and a second individual objected that she could not do that, the child intervened against that second person's objection.

And if it's authorized to do something to let the president do something, then the president's acting at the height of his powers.

But there must be something to sell.

Under section 35 of the Interpretation Act, if written law confers power on a minister to give a direction, issue an order or authorize something to be done, exercise of the power may be done (unless the law states otherwise) under the signature of the permanent secretary to the ministry which the minister is responsible for, or of any public officer authorized in writing by the minister.

And if something is disclosed by an official who is authorized to do so, how can it still be classified?

Whatever rules we had when the Constitution was adopted, we still have today -- unless something happened that was authorized to change them, under the rules as they stood at the time.

One of the further virtues of this approach would be to make it abundantly clear from the outset just how different coercive military action is to other response mechanisms, and how many hurdles should have to be jumped before ever authorizing it: that it is something that should not be contemplated as a routine escalation, but only in the most extreme and exceptional circumstances.