Sentence examples for was authorizing from inspiring English sources
verb
To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
- The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
Even as his administration was authorizing the permits in the Lower Ninth Ward, Nagin said that he thought building there was a bad idea.
The former executives said they informed Mr. Murdoch at the time that he was authorizing an unusually large secret settlement of a lawsuit brought by a hacking victim.
Just yesterday, former Mayor Edward I. Koch said he had thought in 1982 that he was authorizing a temporary tax benefit.
"I always told the government of Guerrero that if it was authorizing self-defense groups then it would have to control them.
The Defense Secretary also was authorizing a special "working group" of a few dozen lawyers, from all branches of the armed services, including Mora, to develop new interrogation guidelines.
And President Reagan was dubbed a warmonger when, within a span of little more than two weeks in March, he called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and then announced that he was authorizing research and development for strategic defense.
The study was authorized by the National Pediatric hospital authorities.
The package was authorized in 1980.
The School of Graduate Studies was authorized in 1963.
(After considerable modifications, the law was authorized).
Old River Control was authorized in 1954.
