After 1908, when the Belgian parliament assumed control of the Congo, the Roman Catholic mission schools were afforded government subsidies and given a privileged official status; the Protestant schools, though not provided with financial assistance, were officially authorized to operate.
After his father appeared as a penitent in an auto da fé, the family escaped to Amsterdam, where Jewish settlement was officially authorized.
According to the Jewish Week, at one point the number of American rabbis who were officially authorized by the Israeli rabbinate to perform conversions was down to a few dozen.
One law likely to be challenged on free-speech grounds is the Official Secrets Act, a sweeping measure that makes it a criminal offense to disclose any aspect of government work unless the disclosure has been officially authorized.
Many of the gruesome atrocities committed by the Nazi regime had been officially authorized by Nazi laws and decrees, and this fact convinced many that law and morality cannot be grounded in any purely idealist or utilitarian or other consequentialist doctrine.
Presently, Twitter has been officially authorized and is building the GNIP database for supporting research (Bartov et al. 2015).
Around that time, the division received its shoulder sleeve insignia, approving it by telegram, though the insignia would not be officially authorized until 1922.
Later that year, in his third State of the Union address, President George Washington urged Congress to provide for a mint, which was officially authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792.
Following the outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1937 the Japanese government had at first kept strong limits on the area of fighting and sought a negotiated settlement to the war, but following the Battle of Shanghai expansionists within the Japanese military won the day and on December 1 the campaign to capture Nanking was officially authorized.
I can't allow you to do that!" An employee of the St. Bernard Parish government, who asked not to be identified because he was not officially authorized to speak on the matter, said that issues of access were primarily in the hands of BP. "BP is running everything down here," he said.
