The phrase "a special mandate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is given a specific authority or task that is distinct or unique in nature.
Example: "The committee was given a special mandate to investigate the environmental impact of the new policy."
Alternatives: "a unique directive" or "an exclusive assignment".
Teachers in its theology department and two others require a special mandate, or license, from the church.
Despite the issuance of a special mandate to a local court to discharge the missionaries, they were not released, and the state's governor loudly proclaimed resistance.
He also serves as the senior policy advisor in the Cornell University Library with a special mandate to address intellectual property issues.
The summit could, for instance, grant a special mandate to resolve these matters rapidly through the E.U.-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue.
While all broadcasters have a principal obligation to provide coverage of the communities where they are licensed, WWOR has a special mandate.
The Defense Department has assembled teams of highly trained disarmament and technical experts from several different Pentagon offices -- organized in the mobile exploitation teams -- who will accompany troops with a special mandate to hunt for unconventional weapons.
The special mandate commission reports for proposed lymphedema mandates in California, Massachusetts and Virginia5, 6, 7 are summarized and compared to the cost data accrued during 10 years of actual operation in Virginia.
Truman's Middle Eastern problems began in the spring of 1947 after Great Britain announced that by the summer of 1948, it would end the special mandate over Palestine that the League of Nations had awarded it following World War I.
Marine Buissonniere, MSF's senior co-ordinator, believes that, at the bare minimum, the UN secretary general needs to appoint a special representative mandated to investigate military attacks on hospitals.
Indeed, over the recent months, more and more states established special mandates focused on promoting the right, with such mandates having been already established in the UK and Denmark.
HOUSTON (AP) — Many investors who lost money in the apparent Ponzi scheme run by the jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford should be compensated by a special reserve fund mandated by Congress that protects customers of failed brokerage firms, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday.
