This change would have authorized patents of importation, providing United States patent protection for inventions already in use elsewhere.
If Iraqi President Saddam Hussein interfered with the inspections or refused to disarm, the resolution would have authorized force.
If there was a leak implicating other players by associates of Rodriguez, it was not clear whether he would have authorized or even known about it.
I do not know whether the Fuehrer would have authorized me on the 31st to hand proposals of this sort to him, but I think it is possible.
Liberation war veterans began a violent campaign to occupy white-owned farms in February after voters rejected in a referendum a plan that would have authorized the seizures.
House Democrats rallied around an alternative by Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina, that would have authorized force in conjunction with the United Nations.
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was a sponsor of a bill in the last Congress that would have authorized $2.2 billion for the global AIDS fund.
The bill left undone would have authorized $451 million in transportation bonds, which are sold to pay for bridge and road repairs.
In distancing itself from the law, Florida declined to participate in a Medicaid pilot program that would have authorized up to $2 million in reimbursement to providers using a new hospice model for severely ill children.
Ms. Brooks told the committee she had no idea that Milly Dowler's voice mail had been hacked at the time and said that no one "in their right mind" would have authorized that hacking.
His natural gas fueling company spent an estimated $3 million on an unsuccessful 2008 California ballot initiative that would have authorized the state to borrow $5 billion to invest in natural gas and alternative energy.
