Sentence examples for they authorised from inspiring English sources

If they authorised it, why did they authorise it?

Although Jordanian officials were wary, believing that the pilot could have been killed already, they authorised the plan.

To achieve this goal, Beauman has had to write a book which, while never salacious, is obviously not the book Taylor's family were expecting when they authorised it.

Police chiefs are facing damaging allegations that they authorised undercover officers embedded in protest groups to give false evidence in court in order to protect their undercover status.

"The Department of Justice and SEC wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't ask what the executive officers of the company knew about corruption and whether they authorised it, or did anything to stop it".

It is also, in theory, possible (but it has scarcely ever happened in practice) that an American parent company could be held liable for the acts of foreign subsidiaries "where they authorised, directed or controlled the activity in question".The power of American legislation to bring charges for bribery by non-nationals is, however, negligible.

But did they authorise its execution and implementation?

They insist that they never authorised UN backing for military force to depose Muammar Gaddafi last year, and refuse to be "tricked" again.

"There is a serious problem with the accountability of the security services to parliament if they won't even state under which statute they are authorised to act", he wrote in the Sunday Times.

"The justification given by the government for providing an immunity to authorised officers is to remove any reluctance they may have to using reasonable force to the extent they are authorised to do so.

They get to drive the trains only if the system fails and they are authorised to open a cabinet of manual controls to move the train into a station.