Sentence examples for fails to authorize from inspiring English sources

CYNTHIA M. BARR Boston, Sept. 8, 2013 To the Editor: What message will Congress be sending if it fails to authorize limited force in Syria as President Obama has requested?

"This bill fails to authorize funding for our national defense in a fiscally responsible manner," the president's veto message to the House of Representatives said.

If Congress fails to authorize a Syria strike, the President is all but certain to desist - with obvious negative consequences for his credibility, both at home and abroad.

And, if Congress fails to authorize action, paralyzing the President, U.S. national security will indeed suffer as our red-lines will become meaningless, leaving us to be perceived as a paper tiger or a faint-hearted "humanitarian", or both.

It was the first time in 35 years that Congress failed to authorize federal money for primary and secondary education.

And in drafting this year's budget, the Legislature failed to authorize an $8.3 million federal grant won by a county health department to expand community health centers.

Patients could file suit in state court in relatively rare circumstances -- if a health plan failed to authorize or provide coverage ordered by an independent medical reviewer.

Administration officials stressed that Secretary Powell told the European reporters that the United States would not be "handcuffed" by the United Nations if it failed to authorize force.

In one of the most heated moments of the hearing earlier, Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, said that Mr. Obama might go through with an attack if Congress failed to authorize it.

To Jack Freund, executive vice president of the Rent Stabilization Association, a landlord group, the more important finding was that even though the price index had climbed close to 25percentt in the last two years, the board had failed to authorize more than a 7.5percentt rise.

The White House spokesman, Joe Lockhart, said today's House vote was "a political trap" for Democrats and "a cruel political trick on the American public" because it failed to authorize 500 additional federal agents and 1,000 prosecutors that President Clinton had called for.