Authorization hold — (also card authorisation, preauthorization, or preauth) is the practice within the banking industry of authorizing electronic transactions done with a debit card or credit card and holding this balance as unavailable either until the merchant… … Wikipedia
Policy appliances — are technical control and logging mechanisms to enforce or reconcile policy rules (information use rules) and to ensure accountability in information systems. [The use of policy appliances in this context was first described in K. A. Taipale,… … Wikipedia
Authorization — In security engineering and computer security, authorization is the concept of allowing access to resources only to those permitted to use them. More formally, authorization is a process (often part of the operating system) that protects computer … Wikipedia
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists — The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (USStatute|107|40|115|224|2001|09|18), one of two resolutions commonly known as AUMF (the other being Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 ), was a… … Wikipedia
Authorization to Transport — An Authorization to Transport is a permit issued by the Canadian Firearms Program allowing holders of Restricted and Prohibited class firearms to transport them in Canada. Such a permit is only issued to holders of a Possession and Acquisition… … Wikipedia
Criticism of American foreign policy — Further information: Foreign policy of the United States Criticism of United States foreign policy encompasses a wide range of sentiments about its actions and policies over time. Common criticisms King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with George W. B … Wikipedia
Monetary policy of India — Monetary policy is the process by which monetary authority of a country, generally a central bank controls the supply of money in the economy by exercising its control over interest rates in order to maintain price stability and achieve high… … Wikipedia
Separation of mechanism and policy — The Separation of mechanism [Butler W. Lampson and Howard E. Sturgis. [http://research.microsoft.com/Lampson/15 ReflectionsOnOS/Acrobat.pdf Reflections on an Operating System Design] [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=360051.360074]… … Wikipedia
Intelligence Authorization Act — The United States Central Intelligence Agency’s Intelligence Authorization Act was implemented in order to enforce an article of the Constitution which has not been followed since Washington’s presidency. [Holt, Pat M. Secret Intelligence and… … Wikipedia
Marketing authorization — Process of reviewing and assessing the dossier to support a medicinal product in view of its marketing (also called licensing, registration, approval, etc.), obviously finalized by granting of a document also called marketing authorization… … Wikipedia
NASA Authorization Act of 2010 — The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 is a U.S. law which authorizes NASA appropriations for fiscal years 2011–2013 with the same top line budget values as requested by President of the United States Barack Obama. The law supports an overall growth… … Wikipedia