The phrase "authorized to decide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has been given the power or permission to make decisions on a particular matter.
Example: "The committee is authorized to decide on the allocation of funds for the new project."
Alternatives: "empowered to make decisions" or "entitled to determine".
Nor was the District Court authorized to decide the question of coverage itself.
"Only the shareholders and, in this case, the supervisory board, are authorized to decide on this issue".
Bishops and abbots were to be chosen by the clergy, but the emperor was authorized to decide contested elections.
Two weeks ago, prosecutors announced that they had submitted to the tribunal a list of five potential defendants for consideration by co-investigating judges, who are authorized to decide on filing formal charges.
Foreign affairs veterans said Mr. Obama was trying to play it safe and avoid being forced to take positions on matters he is not authorized to decide, much less take ownership for the problems and decisions of Mr. Bush.
With a staff of 13 people and a budget of $660,000, he has an enormous task in keeping track of 7,000 high-level Government officials in 30 agencies who are authorized to decide whether information should be classified and, if so, how, and 200,000 more Government employees who carry out those orders.
It is only in the exercise of its judicial powers, when sitting as a court for the trial of impeachments, that the Senate is expressly authorized... to consider and decide upon the conduct of the President...
It now falls to Beck, who alone is authorized to discipline officers, to decide what punishment, if any, to impose.
In 2008 Tajikistan passed new law authorizing farmers to decide for themselves what crops to grow, and this has resulted in a gradual decrease in cotton output.
Why should one assume that the mere fact of residence in an area authorizes persons to decide by majority vote not only to change their own citizenship but also to deprive others (the nonsecessionists) of their citizenship and to remove a part of the territory of the state without the consent of the citizens who happen to live outside the area in question?
Delegating responsibility to others emerged as a new category based on conscious decision making by persons with dementia concerning authorizing others to decide on their behalf.
