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- author + -ise (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Although he did not "authorise" the book, he gave several interviews for it and answered - perhaps naively - the question about his Oxford contemporary's death.”
“In particular, I am shocked by the following entry, which seems to be supporting the right of a small unelected and I believe unrepresentative group to "authorise" or not the translation of a work into their language:”
“The court found that iiNet users did indeed breach copyright, but that the ISP did not "authorise" this infringement.”
“The High Court has told Usenet indexing company Newzbin that it is liable for the copyright infringement of its users, that it did 'authorise' that copying by organising its system to encourage the downloading of films and TV programmes that were protected by copyright.”
“He also said that he did not "authorise" the publication of the interview, which was still on the website Monday evening.”
“Leave the government institutions, but who is going to 'authorise' private institutions to run a check on our privacy?”
“In a rare display of cross-party consensus, the US House of Representatives scheduled a swift vote on a bill to authorise the US commerce department to impose duties on Chinese imports to cancel out what some politicians claim is a 40% discount on their price on global markets.”
“The shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, said the government had failed to authorise an immediate investigation to prevent funds leaving the UK for less regulated offshore tax havens.”
The Guardian: Egyptian officials' assets to be traced by Serious Organised Crime Agency
“But I did not authorise them to say this in a public advertisement as they have done.”
“A panel of former judges oversees the interception of electronic communication – and the home secretary must authorise its collection.”
The Guardian: Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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