"Part of our basic mandate is not to compete with the private market," he said.
Among the mayors' biggest complaints: the transportation bill, a basic mandate of the federal government.
But, mainly, it suggests that attention to politics, once a basic mandate of citizenship, is now an entertainment option, in fierce competition with other forms of entertainment.
The ECB must comply with its basic mandate of maintaining price stability But we must go back to a fully integrated financial and capital markets.
Dr. Aaron Lazare, a psychiatrist, retired dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of a best seller, "On Apology," which is about personal apologies, not public ones, said both the public and personal apology share a basic mandate.
Likewise, the basic mandate of Public Employment Service (PES) is to facilitate the adjustment of firms and workers to changing labor market conditions.
The IDF's basic mandate is to protect Israeli citizens wherever they may be.
In August, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson ruled that parts of the law -- relating, among other things, to how it is enforced -- are unconstitutional, but upheld the basic mandate requiring condoms.
For example, in implementing the reforms of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission has faced stark resistance on Wall Street against a basic mandate for audited companies to merely report on--not limit--the gap between executive salaries and the median pay of rank-and-file workers.
The menu of basic services mandated is extensive.
