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• v  grant authorization or clearance for
  The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
• v  give or delegate power or authority to
  She authorized her assistant to sign the papers

• Jesus clearly did not ordain women to the priesthood, nor did he authorize the church to do so.
• Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has so far withstood military pressure to authorize such a move, but with 26 people killed in two recent attacks, public calls for retaliation .
• The company wants Congress to authorize an unprecedented federal guarantee of a $250 million loan to save its wholly commercial L-1011 plane, a medium-range "airbus" designed to .

• authorise
• pass
• clear
• empower

News & Articles

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• Judges can authorize search warrants by phone
  SANTA FE >> Judges can authorize search warrants over the telephone without actually seeing written requests, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday.
  June 12, 2013 - The Deming Headlight
• Metro Workers Authorize Strike; Next Step Mediation
  ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)– Metro Transit Union members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike Tuesday Ninety percent of the members...
  June 12, 2013 - FOX 2 News St. Louis
• Metro Transit workers authorize strike
  Metro Transit workers voted Tuesday to authorize a strike, a spokesperson for the Amalgamated Transit Union said.
  June 12, 2013 - KSDK St. Louis

Quotes

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• Jesse Jackson Jr in WGNtv.com
  The day after Blagojevich's arrest on December 10, 2008, Jackson said, "I did not initiate or authorize anyone at any time to promise anything to Governor Blagojevich on my behalf."
• Dana Perino in Forbes
  They are wrong. Because Congress failed to act, it will be harder for our government to keep you safe from terrorist attack. At midnight, the attorney general and the director of national intelligence will be stripped of their power to authorize... President Bush http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh0u2JMmcpgHHAEOKNoPb27FyIcg International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/16/america/Bush.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHWpogwgwElKdVLB02rUm6e2GaPDQ Feb 16, 2008 6820 9944 authorize The president said there's a hope, as a result of these conversations, that OPEC would be encouraged to authorize an increase in production," Perino told reporters on Air Force One before it landed in Egypt.