mandate

Definition:
1. A document giving an official instruction or command.
2. A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves.
3. The commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory.
4. Assign under a mandate.
5. Make mandatory.
6. Assign authority to.

Use 'mandate' in a sentence:

1. The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
2. firman n. in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign gabelle n.
3. We humbly accept their mandate.
4. After winning a strong mandate for change and a big majority in parliament, he started at the Elysée with characteristic fizz.
5. Mandating that workers who quit without permission forfeit a month's wages.
6. What was the mandate that he gave you?
7. Some philanthropic funders, including the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, and the Wellcome Trust in London, also data mandate open data from their grant recipients.
8. Does it help you get mandates like this one?
9. Not all states, however, mandate their use.
10. The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.
11. The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
12. This is our core mandate.
13. Mandate truth in labeling.
14. Long has there been no doubt of Heaven's mandate.
15. Current requirements mandating that committees keep minutes are too general.
16. An Economic Analysis on the Mandated Disclosure System in American Securities Law.
17. It does not, however, mandate a whole application rewrite.
18. Establishing this response to the mandate is governance.
19. Only a few weeks of the committee's mandate remained.
20. This proposed mandate was born of frustration.
21. The mandate is there because people are myopic.
22. The measures shifted British public opinion further against the Mandate system.
23. It doesn't mandate any specific system for such expression.
24. The government have a mandate from the people to Increase taxes.
25. The law mandates that imported goods be identified as such.
26. He said he would use the mandate he'd received to achieve change.
27. Mandated desegregation of public schools.
28. The election victory gave the party a clear mandate to continue its programme of reform.
29. The president's tough line is, however, buttressed by a democratic mandate.
30. An employer mandate.
31. Individual mandates would require all people to purchase health insurance.
32. We have a clear mandate to eradicate polio.
33. Why have a mandate?
34. The General Election gave him no such mandate.
35. Part of winning a mandate is having clear goals and not boxing yourself in.
36. Application of Mandate Market Share Policy in Promotion of Renewable Energy.
37. Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.
38. An individual mandate.
39. A mandate from the UN would be needed before any plans could be implemented.
40. Those fears may be a factor in a lingering hesitation to share data even when publishing in journals that mandate it.
41. The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike.
42. Employers did create maternity-leave programs in the 1970's and 1980's, but not as a purely voluntary response in the absence of any government mandate.
43. The Belgians took over Rwanda under a League of Nations mandate.
44. How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation?
45. He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire.
46. The press secretary told reporters that a majority of one would be a sufficient mandate.
47. The presidential mandate is limited to two terms of four years each.
48. The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%.
49. The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%
50. The bank had no mandate to honour the cheque.