Sentence examples for constituted a mandate from inspiring English sources

Yes, the tax penalty constituted a mandate.

You report (front page, Nov. 4) that the White House claims that the election constitutes a "mandate" for the second term.

Before then, nationalists had argued that a majority of Scottish seats in either the House of Commons or a devolved Scottish parliament would constitute a mandate for independence negotiations.

Republicans stormed back last year to take the House, but found, to their frustration, that winning control of one chamber does not constitute a mandate.

So far, Mr. Obama has largely stuck to his past positions, gambling that the 51 percent of the popular vote he won in this month's election constitutes a mandate that will force Republicans to back down.

That should be a concern to Mr Obama, as his second term will almost certainly be dominated by economic issues, just like the first.Republican leaders in Congress were quick to declare that Mr Obama's victory did not constitute a mandate for his economic policies.

If Bob Novak doesn't think these vote totals, reshaped electoral map and switching of traditionally red states constitute a "mandate," then I'd be interested to learn what he thinks does.

In a statement, Mayor Bloomberg said the bill would have constituted a new unfunded mandate for school districts across the state.

Robb says that existing data don't constitute a clear mandate on whether to feed the birds.

But none of this constitutes a popular mandate and desperate cry for Museveni to serve indefinitely as Uganda's de facto president-for-life.

He stressed that the insurance mandate constituted an unprecedented assertion of federal power that could leave virtually every human act — and passive choice — subject to Congress's whim.