Pressed by Mr Mann, Mr Carney said: "I think … a central bank that has operational independence to achieve a mandate defined by the people through Parliament is the right model, and it is the model for which I as Governor and my colleagues on the MPC are fully accountable.
A referendum president is a chance to achieve a mandate to restore this principle of political equality.
Kim is not the first leader to have triumphed over dictatorship only to fumble the chance when he achieved a democratic mandate.
Yet that night in Beirut, hearing his work read in Arabic, it occurred to me that Said, in death, had given that predicament a new meaning and achieved a solid mandate.
Many experts in health policy have said that universal coverage cannot be achieved without a mandate to buy insurance, backed by significant penalties for failing to do so.
He said that he now believed that near-universal coverage could be achieved without a mandate, and added that the mandate he once supported was for basic catastrophic coverage, not comprehensive insurance.
Indeed, it was the closest any party came in the 20th century to achieving a popular majority mandate, but it was still not enough.
Achieving a valid diagnosis mandates a pathohistological examination of a complete sentinel node.
Still, some commentators say, by concentrating on taking down her opponent rather than marketing her own agenda to the voters, Clinton risks achieving a victory without earning a mandate.
I get the idea: mandates are an important step to controlling costs and achieving a universal health care, but mandates should be accompanied by a public health insurance option in order to serve as an "option of good conscience" -- an escape hatch for those of us who have moral objections to being forced under penalty of law to finance the corrupt insurance cartels.
