Sentence examples for a competition of mandates from inspiring English sources

The struggle of wills may in part take the form of a competition of mandates.

Mr. Libeskind claims a public mandate on the project's future after his design was chosen over eight other proposals in a competition of renowned architects.

A competition consists of three lifts.

Similar thinking applies to equalizing all aspects of competition, with a mandated Car of Tomorrow used by all teams, rigid specifications for components and engine rules that render the pushrod V-8s of participating automakers nearly identical.

"We had a bit of a competition.

"It's sort of a competition".

"Of course, it's not a competition".

Competition guidelines mandate that all of the semifinalists are under 30, but there's no restriction on professional accomplishment.

State government imposes a number of unfunded mandates.

Last October, his acrylic painting of a duck known as the common goldeneye beat 191 other artists' works in the Fish and Wildlife Service's annual Duck Stamp Contest — the only art competition mandated by the federal government.

But a sense of nationalist mandate stayed with him.