1 The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
2 The President had a clear mandate to end the war.
3 Our election victory has given us a mandate to reform the economy.
4 The government gave the police a mandate to reduce crime.
5 They'll again haggle over a state mandate that would require businesses to give equal pay to men and women performing the same jobs.
6 He believes the mandate is an issue best left to the states, and that it is wrong to impose a one-size-fits-all federal plan on the entire nation.
7 The terms of their new mandate were hard for Iraq to accept, but it had no choice to spare the country war.
8 He claims a mandate from that referendum; but they face some unpleasant realities: more than 1,500 companies have moved their domicile outside the region, and tourist bookings have dipped.
9 A “shock and awe” campaign spearheaded by promises of economic growth, and the heavy use of huge, old-fashion rallies combined with high-tech holograms and social media bombardment looks to have brought what could be the strongest mandate for any government here since the 1980s.
10 The primary purpose and mandate of the group is to build capacity in the offshore halibut fishery to maximize benefits for Nunavummiut.
11 Environmental experts say real-time air quality updates mandated to start in 74 mainland cities on New Year's Day will leave local officials less room to manipulate data.
12 He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire.