Only the president could authorize the use of the atomic bomb.

只有总统能授权原子弹的使用。

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The framework may have been the only one your bosses would authorize.

该框架可能是您的老板惟一认可的框架。

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Those interests, I contend, authorize the subjection of individual spontaneity to external control, only in respect to those actions of each, which concern the interest of other people.

我认为，在关乎他人利益的每个个体的行为上，是这些永恒利益让个体的自发服从转变成了外在的控制。

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Google Music users learned of a frightful new policy this morning that dictates a user may de-authorize only four devices in a year, out of ten total activations.

ENGADGET: Google Music users granted de-authentication reprieve as company retools activation system

But Rice said Bush "was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country" after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

CNN: Rice: Bush wouldn't approve illegal interrogations

Only then can it authorize the election commission to announce Musharraf the winner of the vote.

NPR: Pakistan Court Clears Musharraf for New Term