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PAGE A7 National DEFICIT PANEL GETS MESSAGE TO CUT BEYOND ITS MANDATE Led by President Obama, pressure is building on the new Congressional committee on deficit reduction to "go big" -- beyond its mandate to cut as much as $1.5 trillion from the federal budget over 10 years -- even as doubts remain about the panel's ability to find enough bipartisan agreement to meet even the original goal.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistanan's caretaker government declined on Monday to bring treason charges against the detained former military leader, Pervez Musharraf, saying it was beyond its mandate.

The NATO-led force in Bosnia has taken on some tasks it originally considered beyond its mandate.

In one comment submitted to the agency, Chad Bradley, a lobbyist for Chesapeake Energy, criticized the E.P.A., saying it was going beyond its "mandate" from Congress, adding new topics resulting in "mission creep".

As the NPL battled internal divisions and a growing unease that it had begun to pursue measures beyond its mandate, the IVA gained support.

"It challenges citizens' right to dissent and reaches way beyond its mandate, which is to fight against terrorist threat".

While hailing the convention as a landmark achievement, Harvard's Grandjean says he hopes countries will go beyond its mandates, particularly when it comes to protecting children's health with measures such as provision of dietary advice and routine screening of pregnant women for mercury exposure.

According to the city, the foundation moved beyond its mandated area and brought in about 300 headstones, placing them on land that had never been part of the cemetery.

But Russia has frozen strong action, complaining that the West went beyond its humanitarian mandate when it aided the overthrow of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya last year.

The organization denied that it had strayed beyond its humanitarian mandate to locate and clear minefields left over from the 1994-96 war in Chechnya.

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