The phrase "permitted to approve" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone has the authority to give approval or permission. For example, "The Department Manager is permitted to approve any requests that come through the office."
An article in The New York Times reported that it failed to get some environmental permits to approve drilling in the gulf and ignored objections from scientists to keep those projects on schedule.
The bill dictates that school officials are not permitted to mediate, approve, or participate in these "inspirational messages," which expand upon the two minutes of silence for quiet prayer or meditation previously observed in Florida public schools.
Doctors are permitted to use approved drugs and devices in unapproved, or "off label," ways as they deem appropriate.
Doctors, who are permitted to use approved drugs in unapproved ways as they deem appropriate, were already using Botox off-label at the time on body parts other than eye muscles.
Physicians are legally permitted to use approved drugs for any purpose, but companies are prohibited from promoting them for conditions not authorized by the F.D.A. Novartis settled the investigation into the other drugs for $237.5 million.
Mr. Donaldson said he was sympathetic to arguments put forward by the Business Roundtable that the original proposal could have permitted investors to approve directors who represented narrow special interests.
Although doctors are permitted to prescribe any approved drug for off-label uses, it is illegal for drug makers to promote medications for any purpose not specifically approved by the F.D.A. Tony Jewell, a company spokesman, declined to comment on Monday.
Although doctors are permitted to prescribe any approved drug for off-label uses, it is illegal for drug makers to promote medications for any purpose not specifically approved by the F.D.A. AstraZeneca, which reported $4.9 billion in Seroquel sales in 2009, plans to report its first-quarter financial results on Thursday.
