Sentence examples for merely authorized from inspiring English sources

Much of the bill merely authorized the federal government to distribute aid to the states, but two aspects of it were revolutionary: a plan for unemployment insurance and one for retirement.

It was replaced, we were told, with a Saudi text that merely authorized the UN's human rights office to provide technical assistance to an existing commission of inquiry being led by Yemen's Riyadh-based government in exile, and to monitor the situation on the ground and report to the Security Council.

This water bill merely authorizes the necessary funds, which Congress must then appropriate.

Both the Senate bill and Mr. Waxman's broader companion measure merely authorize the emergency relief money.

This further supports the proposition that § 1 of the 1871 Act did not merely authorize civil suits to enforce the guarantees of the earlier Civil Rights Acts, see supra, at 663-664.

Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense and a longtime critic of water measures, said in a statement that the legislation has "more pork than a Carolina BBQ joint, with millions going to water project slush funds nationwide, millions more for pumping sand on beaches to protect vacation homes and navigation boondoggles". But the law merely authorizes such projects.

The House lawsuit argues that this language merely authorizes the payments, but it's not couched in the usual verbiage of an authorization bill. .

The reasoning is that raising the debt limit does not authorize new spending -- it merely authorizes the Treasury Department to pay the bills that Congress has already incurred.

It would not necessarily impose duties in particular specific cases--it would merely authorize the Commerce Department to treat currency manipulation as an illegal export subsidy in countervailing duty Investigations.

The Act would merely authorize the VA Secretary to fund civil legal aid for veterans, and the Secretary would be free to experiment with different models of service delivery.

By approving § 2255 Rule 12, we believe Congress intended merely to authorize a court in its discretion to use the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to regulate the conduct of a § 2255 proceeding.