The phrase "a mandate to kill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing authority or permission to carry out lethal actions, often in legal, military, or fictional scenarios.
Example: "The secret operation was given a mandate to kill any threats to national security."
Alternatives: "an order to eliminate" or "a directive to assassinate".
A new bureaucracy, headed by physicians, was established with a mandate to kill anyone deemed to have a "life unworthy of living".
Some House Republicans believe that the hostility to Obamacare that shows up in opinion polls gives the party a mandate to kill the thing by any means necessary, even if that means closing a national park or 59.Democrats are equally sure they are right.
Zizo describes the authorities' carte blanche as, "You gave me a mandate to kill, I'll kill as much as I want".
Breivik squirmed around this question for the best part of 20 minutes before confessing that he gave himself the "mandate" to kill Norwegians in order to rescue them.
At times, it seemed that the people of El Salvador had accepted with too much enthusiasm the international mandate to kill each other in the name of various forms of liberty or justice.
At times, it seemed that the people of El Salvador had accepted with too much enthusiasm the international mandate to kill each other in the name of various forms of liberty or justice..
"It was his mandate to kill opponents and many people will wake up and regret this.
The current prospect of entering a world where machines are explicitly mandated to kill humans should give pause to all of us.
The UN and Belgium had forces in Rwanda but the UN mission was not given a mandate to stop the killing.
The Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), based in The Hague, launches this week with a mandate to move beyond the prosecution of poachers killing endangered species in sub-Saharan Africa to pursuing the "kingpins" who often dabble in multiple forms of criminality.
The inspectors arrived in Damascus on Sunday with a mandate to investigate three locations including the northern town of Khan al-Assal, where some 26 people were killed in March.
