Sentence examples for thereby authorizing from inspiring English sources

These memos gave a weirdly narrow definition to torture, thereby authorizing waterboarding and similar tactics.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

"The company configured its servers to make the information available to everyone and thereby authorized the general public to view the information".

By the act of 1845, the actions thereby authorized are to be brought and maintained 'in the same time' as if brought by citizens of the state.

His absence (if His omnipresence can be counted as an absence) could be regarded as a discourtesy that legitimates all the subsequent discourtesies of his guests: a host who fails to turn up to his own party thereby authorizes his guests to behave as they like (this is the household version of the well-known saying, "If God does not exist, everything is allowed").

President Bush — as he has finally admitted in his new memoir — explicitly authorized torture, thereby committing a serious crime under American and international law.

authorizing retaliatory sanctions.

But he never acknowledged authorizing Lockerbie.

The value of authorizing legislation.

Lauder denies authorizing the meeting.

Verify that you are authorizing the transfer.