Sentence examples for explicit authorisation from inspiring English sources

The resolution is expansive, providing explicit authorisation to member states to take all means necessary – long a euphemism for military force – to protect Libyan towns and cities.

An emergency motion is to be tabled at the conference calling on the party to oppose any UK air bombing in Syria unless there is an explicit authorisation from the United Nations, a position that effectively gives Russia a veto.

His statement, made before a House of Lords debate on the legality of war, was immediately contested by anti-war peers and MPs, who insisted that war required an explicit authorisation from the UN Security Council.

The committee warned that it will assess the implications for Britain and for "public confidence" in its previous statements on US use of Diego Garcia, and said the US should not in future be permitted to use the island, to transfer terror suspects, for combat operations, "or any other politically sensitive activity", without the explicit authorisation from the UK government.

He suggests that amid signs of a fraying chain of command in Syria, an army unit might resort to using chemical weapons without explicit authorisation from Syria's leadership.For the past two-and-half-years Israelis have been mostly sheltered from the carnage raging next door.

Explicit authorisation for construction of a large synagogue was absent.

The escalation of the war into Syria comes without explicit congressional authorisation.

It's what the security services have been doing covertly for ages without, as far as I can see, explicit legal authorisation.

With the Americans insisting on an early deadline, Tony Blair faces the prospect of going to war not only without the legal cover of explicit UN authorisation, but also in opposition to the views of a majority of his own MPs.

The British Attorney General had warned Tony Blair that military action without explicit UN authorisation could be judged illegal and might lead to a future prosecution for the crime of aggression.

I disagree, therefore, with those commentators and lawyers, who assert that nothing less than an explicit (underlined) authorisation to use force in a Security Council resolution will be sufficient.