The phrase "within their authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that falls within the power or scope of someone's authority. Example: The police officers acted within their authority when they issued a citation for speeding. In this example, the phrase "within their authority" means that the police officers had the power or right to issue a citation for speeding, and they exercised that power correctly.
"That is clearly within their authority".
Judge Shafer said she found the arbitrators' decision "rational" and "within their authority".
Judge Cummings said officials acted within their authority in preserving "a community's standard of what subject matter is considered obscene and inappropriate".
All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order.
Over time, people and teams will be empowered to be responsible for decisions within their authority, and will act rather than automatically escalate everything to senior leadership.
[In Campbell-Ewald, t]he majority opinion stressed Yearsley's distinction between contractors acting within their authority and contractors who exceeded their authority.
The report concluded that Stephen J. Hadley, now the national security adviser, and Paul D. Wolfowitz, who was then the deputy defense secretary, "acted within their authorities" to send the Pentagon officials to Rome.
Local representatives (maslikhats) and executive (akimats) bodies manage water relations at the regional level, within their authorities.
"It's no longer within their legal authority to collect Americans' phone records in bulk using foreign intelligence collection authority, or to collect in bulk other kinds of business records," Goitein explained, "but the NSA has many authorities it can operate under".
'The presumption in favor of regularity, which applies to the proceedings of courts, cannot be denied to the proceedings of the houses of Congress, when acting upon matters within their constitutional authority.' Barry v. United States ex el.
And even if they do adopt such licensing powers, they are still not obliged to facilitate community consultation or establish caps on the numbers of clubs within their local authority.
