Sentences with mandate
man·date
M m - The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform. [+ for]
- How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation?
- Under the Australian system, this British election would still have been a knife -edge but it would also have delivered a mandate to govern.
- The coalition's chief climate change negotiator says the federal government has a mandate to introduce an emissions trading scheme.
- ...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends.
- He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive]
- A federal mandate could screw up your work commute very soon.
- He won the election so convincingly that he believed he had been given a mandate for change.
- The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%. [VERB noun]
- The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- They carried out the governor's mandate to build more roads.
- Royal mandates must be obeyed.
- The appellate court resolved the appeal and issued a mandate to the district judge.
- A royal mandate.
- The state legislature mandated an increase in the minimum wage.
- To mandate sweeping changes in the election process.