Sentence examples for that would have authorized from inspiring English sources

Liberation war veterans began a violent campaign to occupy white-owned farms in February after voters rejected in a referendum a plan that would have authorized the seizures.

House Democrats rallied around an alternative by Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina, that would have authorized force in conjunction with the United Nations.

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was a sponsor of a bill in the last Congress that would have authorized $2.2 billion for the global AIDS fund.

In distancing itself from the law, Florida declined to participate in a Medicaid pilot program that would have authorized up to $2 million in reimbursement to providers using a new hospice model for severely ill children.

His natural gas fueling company spent an estimated $3 million on an unsuccessful 2008 California ballot initiative that would have authorized the state to borrow $5 billion to invest in natural gas and alternative energy.

Mr. Schiff failed to make headway with a bill that would have authorized the president to detain enemy combatants so long as they were provided with access to counsel and judicial review.

Even Mr. Roberts, an ardent supporter of the war, said he was not sure that Congress would have authorized the war had it known of the flimsiness on which the prewar intelligence assessments were based.

But Democrats clearly saw those comments, and the one broadcast Monday, as missteps they could exploit, much as Mr. Bush has attacked Mr. Kerry's remark that he would have authorized the president to invade Iraq if he had known then what he knows now about Iraq's weapons.

The comments cap off a rocky week for the likely 2016 presidential contender, which began when some conservatives sharply criticized Bush for saying that he would have authorized the Iraq invasion even if he knew then what is now known about the situation.

"He was for and against the removal of Qaddafi, for and against setting a timetable to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for and against enforcing trade laws against China, and while he once said he would not move heaven and earth to get Osama bin Laden, he later claimed that any president would have authorized the mission to do so," said Ben LaBolt, press secretary for the Obama campaign.

Ms. Brooks told the committee she had no idea that Milly Dowler's voice mail had been hacked at the time and said that no one "in their right mind" would have authorized that hacking.