The phrase "authorizing action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or approval is being granted for a specific action to take place.
Example: "The committee is responsible for authorizing action on all proposed projects before they can proceed."
Alternatives: "granting permission" or "approving measures".
(There was a separate A.U.M.F., in 2002, authorizing action against the government of Saddam Hussein).
Germany also abstained in the United Nations Security Council's vote authorizing action, joining Russia, China, Brazil and India.
The White House said it would send to Congress as early as Thursday the wording of a proposed resolution authorizing action.
Colin Kahl, a former Pentagon official under Mr. Obama, said a "credible threat of military force needs to be left on the table" and suggested the president might seek a conditional measure authorizing action if Syria reneges.
The previous spring, when the United States had decided to join in the nato air strikes against Libya, the White House said that regime change was not the objective, and that persuaded Russia not to veto a Security Council mandate authorizing action to protect Libyans from their ruler "by all necessary measures".
LONDON -- Britain said it would propose a resolution at the United Nations on Wednesday authorizing action to protect civilians in Syria from chemical weapons.
The Security Council exercises its executive authority primarily by authorizing actions and not by carrying them out by itself or by requiring them.
The AU could take a lesson from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional organization with a history of authorizing actions to stabilize parts of Africa, such as Somalia and Sudan.
It's also being used to authorize action against a host of other groups, though who they are is classified.
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It was thus in 1964, when Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, it was thus in 1991, when it approved military action in the Persian Gulf, and it was thus once again this week, when it authorized action against Iraq.
