Sentence examples for a powerful mandate from inspiring English sources

Tony Burdon, an Oxfam policy adviser, said: "It gave the organisation a powerful mandate".

It asks the following questions: Is there public demand or need for the review, giving scrutiny a powerful mandate to demand change from policy-makers and service providers?

He came into office with a powerful mandate to roll back abuses, Unger argues, but reneged on some of his promises, like shutting down Guantánamo, while extending such questionable Bush policies as targeted killings of suspected terrorists (including American citizens).

This featured a distinctive red, grey, blue and white striped jersey, worn when he met the king of Spain and the president of China.More importantly, Mr Morales, Bolivia's first president to proclaim his indigenous origins, has a powerful mandate.

Now that his political crusade, called the Five Star Movement, has been handed a powerful mandate, Mr. Grillo's challenge will be to decide how to use it to change an establishment that has long viewed him as a demagogic, even reckless, man who risks taking Italy down the path of Greece.

It came into power despite losing the popular vote, it has successfully governed until now as if it had a powerful mandate, and it has managed to sidestep ordinary restrictions like the one that says that you have to present a budget that specifies spending as well as tax cuts.

For the first time, the BJP could win more votes (and more seats) than Congress, a powerful national mandate.Indians are fed up: 70% say they are dissatisfied, says Pew. Alarmingly for Congress, rural voters are as surly as town dwellers, despite successive gushing monsoons and bumper government prices for their rice and wheat.

Developing the concepts of caring habits, caring knowledge, and caring imagination, Hamington affirms Jane Addams' "simple yet powerful mandate that we boldly experience one another" through our embodied practices of care (2004, 145).

Morsi's challenge is to use his powerful mandate as Egypt's first popularly elected leader to guide all Egyptians, including the reluctant generals, into a democratic future.

In the eyes of Isis, the reference to the town in Islamic teachings gives the group's rampage an incontestable mandate – a powerful thing to table when you're trying to impose a new world order.

Of all the things that can be done to ensure the reef's good health, the most important is to unleash a powerful body with a mandate to better manage the marine park.