The phrase "authorized to refuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has the official power or permission to decline a request or action.
Example: "The manager is authorized to refuse any requests that do not meet company policy."
Alternatives: "empowered to decline" or "permitted to reject".
3. The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to refuse to issue said permit when, after investigation of all of the facts and circumstances pertinent to said application, he believes it to be proper to refuse the issuance thereof; provided, however, that said permit shall only be refused for the purpose of preventing riots, disturbances or disorderly assemblage.
As table 2 shows 55.6% of respondents believed when an aggressive treatment works, physicians should not be authorized to refuse the treatment even if they believe it is not worth trying because of the patient's poor prognosis.
The Amnesty Committee was authorized to grant or refuse amnesty to individuals who committed human rights abuses.
Exclusion criteria for detailed review of notes included: no documented communication before death, clinical notes limited to post mortem discharge summary, and communications with someone other than a person authorized to give or refuse consent.
At the Bishops' spring conference, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick failed to inform the bishops about Ratzinger's letter authorizing them to refuse Communion to pro-choice congregants or politicians.
If I insisted, he said, he was authorized to sue me for refusing to relinquish his client's property.
1990) ("An absolute prohibition against assignment and subletting has traditionally authorized a landlord to refuse permission for any reason or no reason"), and id. at § 7.304a n. 3, at 298 (citing Healthco, Inc. v. E & S Realty Assocs., 400 Mass.
It would be an extreme if not an extravagant application of the Fifth Amendment to say that it authorized a man to refuse to state the amount of his income because it had been made in crime.' 274 U.S. 259, 263264, 47 S.Ct.
The amendment clarifies that RFRA does not "authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or United States military service".
Now, it explicitly "does not authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide service, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or United States military service".
When someone files a FOIA request for such information, the government is authorized under existing regulations to refuse the request by explaining that such information is exempt from disclosure.
