The phrase "a sole mandate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal, business, or political contexts to refer to an exclusive authority or responsibility granted to a person or organization.
Example: "The committee was given a sole mandate to investigate the financial discrepancies within the organization."
Alternatives: "exclusive mandate" or "single mandate".
When the EU's precursor, the European Economic Community, was launched in 1957, the six founding countries gave the commission a sole mandate to negotiate international trade deals in goods on their behalf.
GDP growth:2.5% GDP per head: $44,330 (PPP: $39,460) Inflation:2.0% Budget balance (% GDP):-3.9 Population:64.4mAn economy in the full blush of recovery will underpin the Conservative Party's case for a sole mandate in general elections in May.
A body with the sole mandate of protecting the natural Rights of the People shall be established with access to all information held by the government about People on whom no warrant has been served and who have not been charged with a crime.
UNICEF is an independent and impartial organization and its sole mandate is to ensure that the rights of children and women are protected and fulfilled.
Some in Bogotá, however, see such a proposal as nothing short of treason, since peace negotiations are held under the sole mandate of President Andrés Pastrana.
What would it mean to be 'human' in a world where the traits and practices associated with 'humanity' are no longer the sole mandate of human beings?
The European Central Bank's sole mandate under the law is to preserve price stability for the euro area as a whole, defined as keeping inflation under 2 percent.
For Berlin, the E.C.B. must be totally independent of governments, with the sole mandate of ensuring price stability, in the tradition of the Bundesbank.
Those who labor in government, the police, and the courts are infidels, as is anyone who works for peaceful change; religious war, not political reform, is the sole mandate.
Also present is one of the Botswana Meat Commission's (BMC) abattoirs in Francistown, with the sole mandate for all imports and exports of livestock and livestock products (BMC Act of 1965).
The ECB's sole mandate is to maintain the stability of the euro.
