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Discover LudwigThe phrase "authorizes over" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where one entity grants authority or control over another, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "The board authorizes over the management to make financial decisions."
Alternatives: "grants authority to" or "empowers to".
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The bill specifically authorizes over $1 billion for the first 10 of 68 planned projects.
There's no question that the $82 million the legislation authorizes over the next three years to improve early-intervention suicide prevention efforts, including on college campuses, will save some lives (albeit fewer than it might have, owing to a parental consent requirement right-wing House Republicans insisted upon that will inevitably deter some troubled kids from getting timely help).
The filing authorizes over 37 million shares of Series D preferred stock at $27 per share.
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The authority's board has authorized over $800 million so far to help with Mr. Silverstein's financing.
The health advocacy group Public Citizen asked the Food and Drug Administration in 2009 what it would take for the agency to authorize over-the-counter sales.
Study treatments in ADAPT were celecoxib at a full anti-arthritic dose of 200 mg taken twice daily, and naproxen sodium at the dosage authorized for over-the-counter use: 220 mg taken twice daily.
AMF has authorized over one hundred retail outlets to sell the Slickcraft line.
Mr. Evans didn't have much paperwork to substantiate his efforts because almost all of the projects had been authorized over the telephone or during conversations at the racetrack.
It is true that in the 2012 fiscal year, the Pentagon had planned to halt the refurbishment of tanks for a few years, but Congress rejected those plans and instead authorized over $500 million for modifying or upgrading the tanks.
In a scathing critique of the Bloomberg administration's oversight practices, New York City's top fiscal watchdog has accused the city's main agency for economic development of allowing a contract with a construction company to balloon by tenfold in three years to nearly $74 million, and authorizing over $3 million in dubious payments.
They have done so by loosening restrictions on Embassy Asmara (REF), by engaging in more diplomatic interaction with embassy personnel, by ending the daily anti-American diatribes in state-owned media, by sending congratulatory letters to President Obama and Secretary Clinton, and by authorizing over $100,000 to support ongoing U.S. medical volunteer programs such as Physicians for Peace.
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