authorize
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The bill would authorize $300 million annually to help utilities pay for much-needed upgrades.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
January 27: European officials authorize the 737 MAX to resume service.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
The GAO recommended that Congress temporarily limit nonemergency sales from the reserve and authorize a funding mechanism to help the Energy Department cover ongoing or periodic costs for maintaining the SPR.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Barrett joined the three liberal justices to conclude that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act didn’t authorize President Trump’s tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“If it’s a ferry flight,” she said, “I can authorize it myself. Let me use the telephone.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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“It authorizes only a sharply limited inquiry of candidate qualifications, demands nothing of their motivations, and trusts that ‘Alaska voters are not easily fooled.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Environmentalists legally challenged the new regulation, which authorizes provincial governments to redefine protected areas as a way to expand mining activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
They invoked a provision of the Clean Water Act that authorizes states to require additional permits on a case-by-case basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
In Florida, a medical power of attorney authorizes your brother to make medical decisions on your mother’s behalf if she were not able to do so.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
It also says the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Arab Episcopal Church authorizes it.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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According to sources familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly, there were people inside the home when the alleged cat burglar tried to enter a second-story window of the three-story home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The armed forces are authorized to assist federal and state police in averting dangers posed by unmanned drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Since then, Colombia has stepped up air assaults and authorized joint military operations with the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
“L.A. County Counsel’s client is the Board of Supervisors, and the Civilian Oversight Commission, like every Board-created commission, is not authorized to act independently of the Board,” the statement said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
On January 2, 1920, Palmer authorized raids across the country in which over four thousand people were arrested.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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She said she was issuing an executive order authorizing “an independent evaluation of officer-involved deaths and severe injuries,” particularly those involving people in crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The mosquito abatement district model has its roots in the early 20th century, and Utah was the third state to pass legislation authorizing the agencies.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
His lawyer, Adam Unikowsky, argued that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment by authorizing a search of every single person's account to find who was within a geofence perimeter.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Before authorizing the transfer, though, Large told Waldorf she had to say specific words.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
When Quintilian says that circumstantial evidence can take the place of a witness, later lawyers took him as authorizing it to be considered as half of a complete proof.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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