Sentence examples for he authorise from inspiring English sources

Some weeks later, on Monday 5 September, he summoned an HSBC banker to his London office near Euston station, and demanded that he authorise the £2.25m payment, to be handed over to him in Swiss francs, in Switzerland.

"If the president could … allow investment in telecoms, why can't he authorise investments in other areas?" Cuba's top diplomat in Washington, José Cabañas, was given the rank of ambassador last year.

To clarify: Mr Blunkett has asked the Guardian to make clear that at no time that he was home secretary did he "authorise or seek to authorise others, to take any such action against a journalist or senior manager in the print or broadcast media".

Last month he authorised Cubans to buy and sell homes and cars.

After arm-twisting by the United States, he authorised a new term on April 23rd.

In July 1963, he authorised the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, who was in the event murdered.

Just this year we have the different admissions by President Bush that he authorised waterboarding," he said.

So Blair knew of the policy, but refuses to say whether he authorised it.

And yet, here was the former president of the United States admitting he authorised torture.

He authorises the Bank of England to lend Northern Rock up to £20bn to stop the run on the bank.

He authorised secret talks with the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, and other senior Kurdish militants in Europe and Iraq.