Sentence examples for could authorise from inspiring English sources

Nobody else could authorise $10m.

He said that because it was a government project, he had been told he could authorise the trials without parental permission.

Ministers will set out the plans to bomb Isis in Syria by the end of the month, meaning MPs could authorise air strikes before Christmas.

I would have been willing to blow things up, but I couldn't do it under the auspices of any authority who could authorise me to do it.

"No attorney general or director of public prosecutions would or could authorise a prosecution for such advocacy without becoming a laughing stock.

In 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) tightened up the rules, decreeing that headteachers could authorise absences during term-time only in "exceptional circumstances" such as funerals.

However, the meeting concluded that the proposal required a scientific evaluation which it could not authorise.

In those days, the conservative Institutional Revolutionary Party PRII) served as an extension of the government, carrying out the functions the state couldn't authorise.

An internal email from the UK Border Agency revealed that senior staff could only authorise back-up at border controls if staff had already reduced the level of checks, she added.

The ruling threatened to erode the Department for Education's strict new rules, which were introduced in 2013, that headteachers could only authorise absences during term time in "exceptional circumstances" such as funerals.

Leaving aside the notion that congress could possibly authorise force in 2001 against an organisation that did not exist at the time, Awlaki's reported connection to those two attacks and AQAP's stated desire to conduct more operations against the United States would seem to be reasonable legal grounds to support the government's claim of imminent self-defence.