Sentence examples for a mandate over from inspiring English sources

The League of Nations nevertheless granted New Zealand a mandate over Western Samoa in 1920.

ʿAflaq first saw nationalism as centring upon the issue of imperialism; he especially resented the French, who after World War I (1914 18) held a mandate over Syria and Lebanon.

In 1920 Britain, which had already been in control of the area, established a mandate over Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations.

The organization urged all societies and clubs in Palestine to cooperate and condemn the San Remo Conference's decision to grant Great Britain a mandate over Palestine and Transjordan.

"It was basically a mandate left over from the founder, Dr. [Robert ] Gumbiner" says Stuart Ashman, who has served as MOLAA's president and CEO since 2011.

For example, in 2007 the F.B.I. asked for more than a dozen changes, like adding a mandate to turn over additional details about cellphone locations.

I'm not issuing a mandate for voice-overs, interior monologues, flashbacks, fantasies, or dream sequences (though there'd be nothing wrong with including them) but, rather, for a fuller spectrum of the characters' present-tense experience to be folded into the action.

Home Secretary Theresa May said the commissioners will, for the first time, have a democratic mandate over police.

But Home Secretary Theresa May said the commissioners would, for the first time, have a democratic mandate over police.

Similarly, the Kenya Dairy Board (established under the Dairy Act, CAP 336) has a direct mandate over the dairy industry, and it is therefore required to streamline it.

State lawmakers have launched multiple versions of a kindergarten mandate over the years.