Sentence examples for whether they authorised from inspiring English sources
"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".
(44) Mechanisms of collective licensing with an extended effect allow a collective management organisation to offer licences as a collective licensing body on behalf of rightholders, irrespective of whether they have authorised the organisation to do so.
If they authorised it, why did they authorise it?
They authorised the army to clear the protesters.
But did they authorise its execution and implementation?
Referring to the "title to a certain painting", the Nahmads' New York lawyer sent emails to another lawyer asking "whether you are authorised to sign legal papers on behalf of IAC", adding: "If you are not so authorised, please advise as soon as possible as to who is authorised to sign on behalf of IAC and all of their contact information".
The Labour leader then asked members to give their view on whether they thought parliament should "vote to authorise the bombing of Syria".
He added: "Even more worryingly, was it a means of evading the legal oversight and legal restriction on how they operated?" Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said ministers were "going to have to say whether they knew about this and what they have and haven't authorised".
Are they explicitly authorised?
Ministers once said they personally authorised all phone-taps, which was untrue.
