Sentence examples for Imperial mandate from inspiring English sources

In another tradition, however, Cao is said to have been in conflict with the law but mended his ways after his release from prison was arranged by an imperial mandate.

Although the kingdom of Iraq, which arose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, was under an imperial mandate only until 1932, the British retained significant control until the late 1950s.

Leo, needing the Imperial mandate for his campaign against what he viewed as a dangerous heresy, promised to assist in expelling the French from Lombardy, leaving Francis with only the Republic of Venice for an ally.

His royal and imperial decrees mandated the establishment of monastic and cathedral schools to teach both the laity and the clergy so that the fundamentals of the faith would be known to all.

At the Nijō-jo in 1867 the last Tokugawa shogun finally turned back to the Imperial court his mandate to rule the nation, marking the first time in more than 200 years that a ruling Tokugawa had set foot in Kyōto.

When the Han imperial house finally lost its mandate to rule, Han Confucianism seemed lost and powerless in overcoming the forces of disorder that threatened to engulf the country.

"Mr President … are you afraid of me?" Chávez strongly criticised the Costa Rica-based court, saying it was part of an international system that "protects the corrupt and obeys the mandate of the [US] imperial power".

Imperial information, an expression of heaven's mandate, was sacred.

The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict (1978) analysed the first decade of the Palestine mandate, drawing on the approaches to imperial history suggested by Robinson and Gallagher in their Africa and the Victorians.

Instead the brigade was assigned to the 6th Airborne Division, which had been named the Imperial Strategic Reserve, and sent to serve in the Mandate of Palestine.

In the classic story of a Chinese dynasty's fall, a weak emperor, along with a weak group of imperial managers, can no longer satisfy the people and loses the "mandate of heaven". In today's global economy, the need for continual innovation may provide a new earthly mandate for organizational change.