Mr. Nunez took his papers to another room, smaller and plainer still, and filled out some forms, including one in which he authorized a constable to try to collect on the judgment.
By the time of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, Mr. Rumsfeld had formally withdrawn approval for use of the harshest techniques, which he authorized in December 2002 and then ruled out a month later.
He then held an Imperial conference during which he authorized minister Shigenori Tōgō to notify the Allies that Japan would accept their terms on one condition, that the declaration "does not comprise any demand which prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as a Sovereign ruler".
At no point was he accused of raising arms against U.S. forces, and in his tribunal, at which he authorized his Personal Representative to speak on his behalf, after requesting the services of a lawyer, he explained, "I never fought anyone.
I asked him about the biography by Patrick French, "The World Is What it Is," which he had authorized.
An impotent person begging out of his area was to be imprisoned for two days and nights in the stocks, on bread and water, and then sworn to return to the place in which he was authorized to beg.
Ryan also had a chair in his cell, which he was not authorized to have, Alexander said.
The official asked not to be named because of the delicacy of the subject, which he was not authorized to speak about publicly.
The C.I.A. suspected that Mr. Snowden was trying to break into classified computer files to which he was not authorized to have access, and decided to send him home, according to two senior American officials.
In 2009, not long after the LyondellBasell bankruptcy, Blavatnik sued JP Morgan Chase, alleging that the bank had negligently put his money into risky mortgage-backed securities, which he had not authorized it to do.
