Sentence examples for resolution to authorize from inspiring English sources

B'nai B'rith has strongly supported a Congressional resolution to authorize an attack on Iraq.

The 296-to-133 roll call on Thursday by which the House voted for a resolution to authorize President Bush to use military force in Iraq.

Then Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader, pledged that Congress would vote within weeks on a resolution to authorize an attack, with its passage all but assured.

Mr. Gephardt angered more liberal members of his party last month by signing on to President Bush's version of a resolution to authorize military force in Iraq.

Following is the text of a resolution to authorize the use of force against Iraq agreed upon yesterday by President Bush and House leaders.

That is legal sophistry, reminiscent of Lyndon Johnson's use of the Tonkin Gulf resolution to authorize a disastrous land war in Vietnam.

The resolution refusing to authorize the Libyan operations has no real effect because the Senate is unlikely to take it up.

The House and Senate debated resolutions yesterday to authorize the president to declare war on Iraq and are expected to vote tomorrow.

When Bush submitted a resolution to Congress authorizing his war aims in the fall of 2002, he posed the first litmus test on the use of force in the age of terror.

A United Nations Security Council resolution would be needed to authorize any NATO military action of that kind, he indicated.

Instead, a September 21 , 1789concurrent resolution asked the state legislatures to authorize their prisons to imprison federal prisoners.