Appearing on NBC's Meet The Press program, Vice President Biden pledged enforcement of the sanctions, which include financial penalties and authorize searches of North Korean ships suspected of carrying nuclear materials or ballistic missile components.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.

他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Not only in terms of the economic decisions that they can be make, but also in terms of people are able to throw their ways around in way the constitutions never authorize them to do.

不仅仅限于,他们可能做出的经济决定，还在于,人们可以不按常理出牌,以宪法,不允许的方式做事情。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

In the United States, a vote in Congress is expected in the coming weeks that could authorize up to $4,500 to individuals who trade in vehicles in what has become known as the "cash for clunkers" bill.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18