The phrase "authorizes as" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the act of granting authority or permission in a specific capacity, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The manager authorizes as the lead on this project."
Alternatives: "grants authority as" or "designates as".
To cite just one example, Oklahoma's statute authorizes as much as one year in prison and a $500 fine for anyone convicted of blasphemy.
A1 Slot Machines Are Approved Pennsylvania lawmakers enacted legislation that authorizes as many as 61,000 slot machines for horse tracks, resorts and slot parlors across the state, and will generate $1 billion a year, officials say, for reducing taxes.
Wiretaps and other surveillance are far more common and easily authorized, as well, allowing authorities to build cases that might be impossible elsewhere.
It is also authorizing as many as five budget airlines.
A navigation improvement project was authorized as early as 1911, and work began on the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams in 1933.
In New Jersey, the State Department of Environmental Protection could be authorized as early as next spring to grant permission to municipalities, farmers, golf courses and others to reduce the goose populations.
Beyond the mayoral race, a statewide referendum to authorize as many as seven full-scale casinos in New York State has also attracted significant spending, but only from proponents of the measure.
African Union officials said Thursday that the Kenyan forces would soon be absorbed into the official peacekeeping operation, and that the African Union would ask the United Nations to authorize as many as 20,000 African peacekeepers for Somalia.
The Obama administration, which has ruled out deploying American troops in Libya, announced Wednesday that it would authorize as much as $25 million in military surplus supplies, though not weapons, to the Libyan opposition forces.
Republican leaders contend that Democrats well understood that while the law authorized as much as $80 billion in additional spending on Title I high-poverty schools alone by 2007, that did not mean the full amount would be appropriated.
The Germans have authorized as many as 100 special forces troops to take part in those operations, though a Defense Ministry spokesman said the ministry did not comment on them.
