Sentence examples for constitutes a mandate for from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
Yes, the tax penalty constituted a mandate.
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.
But none of this constitutes a popular mandate and desperate cry for Museveni to serve indefinitely as Uganda's de facto president-for-life.
This hardly constitutes a "disrespect for evidence".
In a statement, Mayor Bloomberg said the bill would have constituted a new unfunded mandate for school districts across the state.
This isn't a mandate for us.
First, he has a mandate for change.
