But the resolution does not authorise force, let alone give America carte blanche for such actions.
He has also said he will not authorise the building of new nuclear weapons.
That convinced the Treasury to authorise the purchase, but it has still raised a lot of eyebrows.
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And like Russia they have resisted the idea that the UN should authorise an US attack on Iraq.
American officials say they will soon authorise the resumption of the shoot-down programme.
Some comprehensive economic departments should be in charge of planning, but all they want to do is authorise projects.
"If the enthusiasm was not there, IFAB would not have decided to authorise an additional two-year period, " he said.
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Meanwhile, a new economic regulator would authorise providers and promote competition between them.
The key of course would be the position of the supreme leader, who would have to authorise such a move.
The hearings were adjourned at a preliminary stage last November amid uncertainty over the attorney general's right to authorise them.
The new charges of breaking immigration law come two days after the Attorney General's Office declined to authorise his prosecution.
In October 2002, John Kerry of Massachusetts joined 21 other Democratic senators in voting to authorise an invasion of Iraq.
The man could walk in, scan his fingers and authorise the bank to transfer his money to the shopkeeper's bank account.
Mr Clifford was not charged over three further allegations as there was "insufficient evidence to authorise charges", the Crown Prosecution Service said.
They had, the commissioner-general of prisons said, to be ready, even though the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has yet to authorise an execution.
School chairs of governors can also authorise absence beyond those 10 days.
The Political Council, with the prime minister as its chairman, is the sole body that can authorise the use of nuclear weapons.
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They stressed it required Obama to make a difficult and agonising decision to authorise the actual mission, against the wishes of many advisors.
On Friday the African Union asked the UN Security Council to authorise immediate logistical help to allow the 6, 000-strong force to deploy quickly.
Rather than enter your membership numbers manually, a traveller can authorise Superfly to scan his or her Gmail inbox for messages that contain frequent flyer information.
The authority had rejected Mr Johnson's order to hold a public consultation but, after he threatened legal action, members voted to authorise it.
Tanaiste Mary Harney said David Trimble's refusal to authorise the attendance at cross-border meetings of Sinn Fein was incompatible with the Good Friday Agreement.
But you may authorise any company with a Visa code, anywhere in the world, to set up a continuous payment from your credit card.
The Security Service Act gives the home secretary such wide powers to authorise intrusion that the commissioner and tribunal have little grounds to object.
Or it can launch a general strike, a radical step the leadership have so far been reluctant to authorise, or other forms of civil disobedience.
Andres Pastrana, Mr Uribe's predecessor, was reluctant to authorise all-out spraying.
And the fact that Fidel Castro chose this week to authorise the death penalty for Cuban drug-smugglers will not exactly help them prove their point.
Israeli officials claim that Mr Shehada was about to authorise a massive wave of new attacks in Israel and Gaza, which is why he was slain.
He has just commissioned another settlement on Jerusalem's southern rim and has set up a committee to authorise retroactively dozens of settlements unlicensed by Israel's government.
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