Sentence examples for i not authorized from inspiring English sources

And as President, I would have been derelict in my duty had I not authorized the strike that took him out.

"As President, I would have been derelict in my duty had I not authorized the strike that took out Awlaki," Obama says.

And as President, I would have been derelict in my duty had I not authorized the strike that took out Awlaki.

Obama defended the action: "As President, I would have been derelict in my duty had I not authorized the strike that took out Awlaki," he said.

He tries to play down the problems of Guantánamo Bay, writing that detainees were given "a personal copy of the Koran" and access to a library among whose popular offerings was "an Arabic translation of 'Harry Potter.' " And he asserts that "had I not authorized waterboarding on senior al Qaeda leaders, I would have had to accept a greater risk that the country would be attacked".

"I have not authorized it and I will not authorize it".

If doing Y is constitutive of doing Z, then if I authorize myself to be moved by the desire to do Y because I mistakenly believe that doing Y is a way of not doing Z, then there is an obvious sense in which I have not authorized myself to do what I am now doing when I am moved by the desire to do Y.

He said, 'I'm not authorized to speak.' I said, 'Really?' He said, 'Sorry, that's just the way we do it.' " Washington, where I have reported and edited (and used my share of unnamed sources) for the better part of the last 40 years, is a city steeped in the culture of anonymity.

I didn't do anything that I was not authorized to do," he told us when we met in Germany.

"The note said, 'I'm not authorized to tell everybody this at this moment, but as a courtesy I want you to know,' " Mr. Rather said.

"I'm not authorized to work because of my status".