Sentence examples for capacity to authorize from inspiring English sources

Paris Aristotle, a member of the advisory group, conceded that releasing detainees "is not something that we have the capacity to authorize".

Here, the jurors must decide whether they believe that Mrs. Astor, who died in 2007 at the age of 105, lacked the mental capacity to authorize a pay raise, and that Mr. Marshall knew it.

Representatives must act in ways that safeguard the capacity of the represented to authorize and to hold their representatives accountable and uphold the capacity of the representative to act independently of the wishes of the represented.

Surely a "No" to an intervention in the body is often a "No" even when the patient lacks the capacity or the information to authorize a "Yes" (compare Estlund 2007, 121 5; Gunderson 1990).

Senators John Kerry and John Edwards voted to authorize it.

Congress, however, refused to authorize national testing.

Clinton voted to authorize that war; he voted against it.

Arkansas became the 45th state to authorize annual legislative sessions.

Their main functions are to authorize small functional displacements, to link the elements, to transmit stresses.

Didn't Congress refuse to authorize it?

The union advised members vote to authorize a strike.