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• n  a document giving an official instruction or command
• n  the power or right to give orders or make decisions
  deputies are given authorization to make arrests
• n  official permission or approval
• n  the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

• President Bush and Senate Republicans say they object to the Democrats' draft authorization because of provisions like making the overall intelligence budget public and creating a .
• And that means accepting the French proposal to delay any authorization of force to a second resolution, if the Security Council judges Saddam to be in breach of the new inspection .
• But Congressional authorization to bypass the UN is also likely to reopen the debate among Bush's advisers over just how far to pursue the diplomatic option.

• mandate
• authorisation
• authority
• potency
• dominance
• say-so
• sanction
• empowerment

News & Articles

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• Commission votes in favor of DBO for new water treatment plant
  WOONSOCKET ? Opponents went down fighting as Mayor Leo T. Fontaine narrowly won the authorization he needs to privatize a proposed $50 million water treatment plant from the Budget Commission. The long impasse over privatization finally broke on a 3-2 vote Friday as Fontaine and Commissioner Peder Schaefer lobbed verbal grenades at each other from opposite sides of the issue. Shaefer said he’d ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Woonsocket Call
• Vitter Secures Key Provisions for Louisiana in Defense Authorization
  U.S. Sen. David Vitter has worked to secure key provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014 which has passed the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.  
  June 16, 2013 - NBC 10 - FOX 14 Monroe
• Cangene Announces Withdrawal of Marketing Authorization Application for Investigational Hemophilia Compound IB1001 in ...
  Cangene Announces Withdrawal of Marketing Authorization Application for Investigational Hemophilia Compound IB1001 in Europe
  June 13, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Forbes
  In a speech last week, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I am working on legislation to repeal that authorization and replace it with a much narrower mission statement for our troops in Iraq."
• Jon Kyl in Forbes
  If Democrats use the defense authorization bill to pander to the far left at the expense of our national security, they should expect serious opposition from Republicans,said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.