What's the difference between authorize and empower?

Authorize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
  • (v. t.) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
  • (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
  • (v. t.) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
  • (v. t.) To justify; to furnish a ground for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (4) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (6) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (7) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (8) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (9) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
  • (10) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (11) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
  • (12) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (13) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
  • (14) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (15) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (16) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (17) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (18) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (19) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.

Empower


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
  • (v. t.) To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many would argue that patient education has been used to serve the needs of the health care professional (through compliance) rather than empowering the patient.
  • (2) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
  • (3) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
  • (4) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
  • (5) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
  • (6) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
  • (7) We believe that listening to staff and empowering them to improve and contribute means there is likely to be a proportionate improvement in our patients' experience.
  • (8) The public, throughout the years of the coalition government, has been empowered to distrust teachers.
  • (9) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
  • (10) CAL is seen as a means of empowering the patient, rather than the nurse to take control, and this is viewed as a positive move in the direction of self-care.
  • (11) The revolution proved that a framework enabling people to self-organise in small but coordinated communities will empower them and set free their creative energies.
  • (12) These choices now open the way for Mr Juncker to pick the rest of his commission team, all of whom will face confirmation hearings at the newly empowered European parliament before the new commission takes over the reins in two months’ time.
  • (13) To counter this trend, Pol DHuyvetter, a Belgian who has lived in Babilônia since 2012, launched solar power project RevoluSolar, empowering residents to become energy self-sufficient as electricity bills have risen.
  • (14) Big Society Capital recently launched a £1m investment in Developing and Empowering Resources in Communities (Deric) , which has been proven in trials to increase care time by around 25%.
  • (15) These stages helped in shaping the characteristics of the discipline as a human science, a practice science, a science with social goals to empower nurses to provide effective and quality care, and one in which gender differences and the need for understanding minorities are areas of primary concern.
  • (16) Introduce 'new homes zones' But we need also to unlock land for development, empowering those who want to build high-quality homes quickly with the means to do so.
  • (17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
  • (18) This is supposed to "empower" them and make it much easier for them to be held to account when budgets go awry, as they have a habit of doing in defence.
  • (19) The law also empowers courts to bar the journalists from working in their profession for up to a year.
  • (20) It may also be empowered to set limits on the size of loans that can be granted relative to a borrower's income.