Historical clue formulations

• Authorization, informally — 2025-10-09
• Parental authority — 2025-05-12
• Final authority — 2024-11-11
• Right of approval — 2023-12-13
• Parental authority — 2023-09-27
• Authority — 2022-04-01
• Unsupported assertion — 2021-10-19
• Final authority — 2021-07-12
• Go-ahead — 2021-01-02
• Final authority — 2020-12-20
• Authority — 2020-12-06
• Have the final word — 2020-10-25
• Final authority — 2020-02-16
• Authority — 2017-09-25
• Authority — 2017-04-09
• Final authority — 2016-12-07
• Authorization — 2015-05-31
• Final approval — 2014-12-29
• Final approval — 2013-10-22
• O.K. — 2012-11-17
• Final approval — 2012-11-13
• Authority — 2012-09-02
• Permission — 2012-07-23
• Ultimate authority — 2011-09-19
• Sway — 2010-12-02
• Authority — 2010-07-22
• Unsupported assurance — 2009-09-17
• Unsupported statement — 2008-06-12
• Final authority — 2007-03-20
• Last word — 2006-07-20
• Approval — 2006-04-04
• Approval power — 2005-12-13
• Final approval — 2005-03-14
• Final authority — 2005-01-31
• Final authority — 2004-01-06
• What the boss has — 2003-05-04
• Final decision — 2003-05-02
• Final authority — 2003-03-25
• "If you ___" (words of deference) — 2002-12-23
• Authority — 2002-08-19
• Final authority — 2002-02-13
• Authority — 2000-10-31
• Final authority — 2000-08-01
• Final approval — 2000-02-22
• Discretion — 1999-06-27
• Authority — 1999-04-01
• Word — 1998-12-20
• Final approval — 1997-09-01
• Final word — 1997-07-11
• Authority — 1996-08-13