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Example sentences for "authorizing"

Lexicographically close words:
authorization; authorizations; authorize; authorized; authorizes; authors; authorship; authour; authours; autistic
  1. I move to take up the joint resolution authorizing a contract with Vinnie Ream for a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

  2. At the next session a bill became a law, authorizing the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands.

  3. Parliament had passed a law authorizing the creation of a model prison on this system at Pentonville.

  4. In 1821 another law was passed authorizing the same at Philadelphia.

  5. A bill has passed, authorizing the President to raise the salary of a Chargé des Affaires to four thousand five hundred dollars, from the first day of July last.

  6. I question if they will think a declaration of war prudent, as it might alarm, and all its effects are answered by the act authorizing captures.

  7. Curiously enough, after the mischief was done, the Admiralty on the 13th sent a telegram directly authorizing "a landing of seamen and marines for police purposes, to restore order.

  8. But it was nearly three months before an Act passed the Commons authorizing peace with America, and the acknowledgment of American Independence, and it was nearly a year before the treaty for that purpose was agreed upon.

  9. Its constitution is their bill of directions to their own agents--a grant authorizing the exercise of certain powers, and prohibiting that of others.

  10. They were kindly furnished us by the authors in pursuance of an order from his excellency the Governor, authorizing the special magistrates to give us any official statements which we might desire.

  11. When Charles the First ordered his proclamation authorizing sports on Sunday to be read in all churches, many clergymen complied, some refused and others hurried it through as indistinctly as possible.

  12. In other circles it was hinted that the compensation was for procuring the passage of a bill through the legislature authorizing aliens to hold lands, &c.

  13. In this dilemma the legislature passed an act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to report on the subject.

  14. There is, however, somewhere power to enact a law authorizing the people to make a constitution and prescribing the manner in which it is to be made.

  15. When, therefore, a great enterprise of this kind is undertaken by a state, the law authorizing the work usually provides a fund, the income of which is to be applied to this object.

  16. The scene in the Legislative Body was followed by the instant introduction of bills making additional appropriations for the Army and Navy, calling out the National Guard, and authorizing volunteers for the war.

  17. No instruction was ever given to any Minister authorizing him to tender a return of the surplus, or even to sound the Chinese Government on the question of receiving it, if tendered.

  18. In 1497, letters patent were issued from the Sovereigns to the admiral, authorizing him to grant repartimientos of the lands in the Indies to the Spaniards.

  19. As the legislative resolution authorizing a subscription for such a publication is repealed, a journal, if started, will depend upon the disposition of the people to sustain it.

  20. I immediately wrote, authorizing deputations to be sent from each of the unrepresented districts, and transmitting funds for the purpose.

  21. As Colonel Brady is about to leave the post for the season, some conversation has been had about authorizing him to get a clergyman to come to the post.

  22. The priest was absent three days, and then returned with the necessary document authorizing him to start from Borizow in four days' time.

  23. Still less is it a constitutive principle of reason authorizing us to extend our conception of the sensuous world beyond all possible experience.

  24. In doing so, he gained their ill-will, but did not succeed in preventing a decree authorizing a sale of the property.

  25. As soon as this decree, authorizing a sale of the property, was made, Mrs. Montgomery began to make preparation for removal.

  26. On the 5th December an ordinance was passed, authorizing the formation of a Hook and Ladder Company, which was the first, last and only attempt to form a Fire Department.

  27. Other acts were passed authorizing loans for prisons, hospitals, asylums and State Houses.

  28. For medical education, I have recommended legislation authorizing grants-in-aid to public and nonprofit institutions.

  29. Soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain.

  30. I believe Congress ought well consider the desirability of the only promising alternative, namely, a provision authorizing proclaimed American valuation, under prescribed conditions, on any given list of articles imported.

  31. I can not too strongly urge the policy of authorizing the establishment of a line of steamships regularly to ply between this country and foreign ports and upon our own waters for the transportation of the mail.

  32. In the meantime, as an assayer's office is established there, I would respectfully submit for your consideration the propriety of authorizing gold bullion which has been assayed and stamped to be received in payment of Government dues.

  33. In authorizing Major-General Jackson to enter Florida in pursuit of the Seminoles care was taken not to encroach on the rights of Spain.

  34. A law had been passed in 1850 authorizing the Legislature to step in whenever the dividends rose above ten per cent, on the railroad's actual cost, and to declare what should be done with the surplus.

  35. Instead of now being the superior of the corporation the Government has long since definitely surrendered to private corporations a tremendous taxing power amounting virtually to a decree authorizing enslavement.

  36. True, to bring about this consolidation an authorizing act of the New York Legislature was necessary.

  37. Congress then passes a law called an "enabling act," authorizing the people of the Territory to form a State constitution.

  38. Letters of marque are commissions issued to private parties, authorizing them to cross the frontiers of another nation, and to seize the persons and property of its subjects.

  39. In February, 1863, Congress passed an act authorizing the "peaceful and quiet removal of the Winnebago Indians from the State of Minnesota, and the settling of them on a new reserve.

  40. The Sheykh el Islam has also recently died there, who gave the fetwa authorizing Abd-el-Aziz' deposition.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "authorizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.