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Meaning mandate meaning

What does mandate mean?

mandate

— noun a document giving an official instruction or command — verb assign under a mandate mandate a colony — verb assign authority to — verb make mandatory the new director of the school board mandated regular tests — noun the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory — noun a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

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order command authorization decree instruction commission warrant injunction charge writ proxy power of attorney edict dictate credentials behest authorisation assignment requisition mandatory law impose commandment thrust task summons sanction rule require prescription prescript ordinance oblige necessitate mission govern force errand dominion directive direction constrain compel colony coerce brief bidding authority assert will

Conjugation mandate conjugation

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mandate · verb

Examples mandate examples

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Simple sentences

The church does not have the mandate to change the world. But if it fulfills its mission, it will change the world.
Until 1962, Algeria was a French mandate.

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Give me the reins, Here is a mandate.
We come because of a mandate granted to us by the League of Nations which Emir Hassan and his followers refuse to recognise.
Palestine is a British mandate imposed upon us. by the League of Nations. which makes us responsible for keeping peace in the area.
I don't know much about the mandate. But I do know the Jews were promised a homeland in Palestine.
You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box.
I could walk out of here tonight and offer myself as candidate for the presidency and by tomorrow, I'd be at that desk with precisely the mandate you hold so dear.
The mandate?
I'll prepare a special mandate.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
It was a Cylon mandate to maintain the purity of the Theta life form.
The party or parties that get the most votes. in the present and closest election, meaning the party or parties. that have received the biggest mandate.
The first mandate was to remain with the children and.
If it be not a mere farce you are enacting. in these sacred valedictory rites. if you mean them, feel them - as I know you do. they have for you a mandate of imperative duty.
Long-term considerations mandate the increase of airfreight.
Your benefactor uses his political mandate to vote the purchase of anything at all. Which he then supplies via a frontman.
All I need is his mandate.
Going back over twenty years ago, in March of the sixth year of Meiji, the nation is first draft mandate was enacted by the Cabinet.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.
Think of them as custodians of the universe - advanced beings, very highly advanced, whose mandate it is to make certain that their powers are never abused by anyone of their own kind.
Troy, our first mandate was to remain incognito from the masses.
I have a clear mandate to the city.
It's rumoured that they wish to lay down their mandate.
As a governor of the Provence region, I can only give you a mandate for seeing the prime minister.
This Moor whom now it seems your special mandate for the state affairs hath hither brought.
Sir, I obey the mandate and will return again to venice. Cass.
Eloim's mandate orders us to exterminate them before the full moon.
Sir, here is the royal decree assigning me this mandate.
A mandate should have a limited time so.
The Public Safety Committee has exceeded its mandate.
Wouldn't that be in violation Of his mandate as defense attorney?
That's within your mandate.
That's nothing. That's not a mandate.
But in Bester's case, that mandate is just a little broader.
But while our foundation arm has a mandate to support experimental programs, your proposal seems less like science, and more like science fiction.
That's not their mandate.

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They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.
The remit of Sweden's fiscal council is particularly broad, giving it a mandate not only to forecast, but also to look more deeply at the motivations and consequences of government policy.
It was in Yugoslavia that Vojislav Kostunica was elected president, but his mandate comes solely from support in Serbia.
The United Nations Security Council has authorized the International Security Assistance Force to take all necessary measures to fulfill its mandate.
This is easier said than done. Many Europeans will argue that they cannot condone military action without a Security Council mandate.
Some countries even impose a constitutional mandate for equality of educational opportunities.
There are obvious obstacles to holding such a referendum, primarily because the US does not have a mandate to dispose of Iraq as it pleases.
Yet Ban has inspired global confidence in his leadership to the point of securing an uncontested and unanimous second mandate.
There is broad consensus in the US against a narrow mandate, such as that of the European Central Bank.
Likewise, developing countries need to consider not only the central bank's independence, but also its mandate and representativeness.
Fox's term, along with the four last years of former President Ernesto Zedillo's mandate, were hardly a failure.
Moreover, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's mandate ends at the same time that parliament dissolves, which means that his successor, elected by the new parliament, would have to nominate a government without a majority in both houses.
A central bank, he argued, needs a very simple mandate that allows it to explain its actions clearly and be held accountable for them.
Since EU policymakers have a narrow mandate and their decisions are often inspired by external technical criteria, they can be held accountable for their behavior despite the absence of elections.
Similarly, the mandate of the Financial Action Task Force, created in 1989 to curb money laundering, has grown and become focused mainly on curbing terrorist financing.
Many Europeans will argue that they cannot condone military action without a Security Council mandate.
Only this approach can secure the mandate from the public that the next US president will need to engage effectively with other world leaders.
But foreign concerns about the status of China's mandate in Tibet are understandable: Tibet is the strategic high ground between the two most important nuclear powers in Asia.
Institutional clarity on the BCB's mandate for financial stability and the instruments at its disposal could help Brazil avoid future crises - or at least weather them more effectively.
China and Russia would never allow the US to secure a United Nations mandate for an attack.
Rowhani must seek a path that does not cost him the support of the majority of the regime's power centers, yet that also allows him to fulfill the mandate he received from voters.
Likewise, developing countries need to consider not only the central bank's independence, but also its mandate and representativeness. They need to balance concerns about economic efficiency with those of democratic accountability.

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