That convinced the Treasury to authorise the purchase, but it has still raised a lot of eyebrows.
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"If the enthusiasm was not there, IFAB would not have decided to authorise an additional two-year period, " he said.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The U.N. has the power to authorise military intervention once all other options have been exhausted and the peace and stability of a region is in jeopardy.
Many are under the misapprehension that it is a vote to authorise new spending, not permission to pay the bills that this and earlier Congresses have already run up.
In the House of Lords, Peers polish off the Armed Forces Bill, which has to be passed in order to authorise the continued existence of the Army, Navy and RAF.
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Those included not just signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, but also her willingness to authorise back channel contacts with the IRA leadership during the hunger strikes in the early 1980s.
The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 contained provision to allow the chief constable of Fife to authorise youths to buy or attempt to buy alcohol for determine whether an offence was being committed.
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And he poses a threat on other fronts: Mrs Clinton has always had problems with anti-war leftists, who are furious about her vote to authorise the Iraq war and disappointed that she has refused to renounce it.
To keep the commission in check, this will require the signatures of two judges: one to safeguard the right to freedom of expression and another to authorise a demand for the suspected perpetrator's details from the internet service provider.
Mr Bush and Britain's Tony Blair will meet at Camp David on January 31st to discuss not only the timing of any possible military action, but also whether to try first for another Security Council resolution to authorise it, or to proceed without one.
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An outright government defeat would be a huge problem for David Cameron, leaving him precious little room for manoeuvre in euro-negotiations - and facing defeat if he fails to deliver a budget cut, and has to try to persuade the Commons to authorise an above-inflation budget settlement.
Some comprehensive economic departments should be in charge of planning, but all they want to do is authorise projects.
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