Sentence examples for if it authorizes from inspiring English sources

Who shall assume to say to the legislature, that if it authorizes a particular mode of giving notice to a debtor, its action may be sustained, but, if it adopts any or all others, its action is unconstitutional and void?

But he warned that the state could face "liability issues" if it authorized biking routes on state roads without adequate shoulders or bicycle lanes.

Several budget analysts said the proposal appeared as if it could authorize back-door borrowing.

A future Congress could study that area's oil and gas potential and then, if it wished, authorize drilling.

But if it was authorized at all, it can hardly become at some moment illegal because there was so much stuff to examine that it took overtime.

"I always told the government of Guerrero that if it was authorizing self-defense groups then it would have to control them.

Talking to reporters last month, he said Russia would support an international force in Iraq -- even under United States command -- if it were authorized by the United Nations Security Council.

India, Turkey and Pakistan have indicated they might contribute troops to a multi-national force, but only if it is authorized by a new United Nations resolution.

And if it's authorized to do something to let the president do something, then the president's acting at the height of his powers.

"By definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture," Ms. Rice said, almost quoting Nixon's logic: "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal".

Among the many absurd things Ms. Rice did was to offer this argument that waterboarding is legal: "By definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture".