Tsipras asked for a mandate and got it.
To work effectively, community policing requires a mandate and relationship with local citizens.
The phone companies are strongly against such a mandate, and many lawmakers are opposed as well.
The aides studied the experience of Massachusetts, which has a mandate, and health laws in other states that do not.
Massachusetts — fairly progressive, relatively affluent, with an abundance of health providers — included a mandate and became the successful exception.
"I have a mandate and I am going to stick to it," he said in an interview.
Once a tribunal is given a mandate and launched by the United Nations, it has a life of its own.
The right-wing opposition criticized him for rushing forward without a mandate, and for being too hungry for a deal.
A reporter pointed out that Vieira de Mello had operated in Iraq without such a mandate and with considerable success.
But the fact is, the president has given them a mandate, and they're going to ignore the testimony".
The time to act is now since "we have a mandate and a consensus at the top level".
