"The secretariat … has no explicitly defined mandate to speak publicly on human rights," Sharma's office told senior staff.
They are generally based in the field, away from the UN bureaucracy in New York, and are only in existence for a limited period of time, with a clearly and narrowly defined mandate.
Of course, even a heavy caseload would not have erased her responsibility to report anything amiss in the Jackson household, but her narrowly defined mandate under New Jersey law makes it unclear that anything she saw crossed this line.
Part of the Obama administration's frustration with the inspectors is their narrowly defined mandate to simply determine whether chemical munitions had been used — which the United States and its allies have already concluded to be a fact.
His themes were further developed and illustrated in a film of the same title, which was also successful and well reviewed.The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others...Today, corporations govern our lives.
The new president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, is under increasing pressure to abandon the bank's defined mandate to maintain price stability, and to instead become the Eurozone's lender of last resort.
But however access to health care comes to be defined, mandated, and funded, we are still left with fundamental questions and serious concerns around the supply side of the equation -- namely, what does the delivery of care look like?
Since the Western Cape has begun to put in place formal institutions for DHS oversight, the CMHF has not been able to collaborate adequately in a process in which it has no legislative standing or defined mandate within the DHS.
Such joint programmes have the ability to help health cluster partners to easily define their mandates and comparative advantages which will in turn facilitate transparent allocation of tasks and responsibilities, ensure accountability (to beneficiaries, partners and donors) and ultimately reduce duplication of efforts.
Health care is a particular nightmare for Mitt Romney, who is currently in an awkward position regarding universal health, Lizza said: he is "trying to define the mandate in Massachusetts as perfectly acceptable and yet the mandate at a national level as an affront to liberty".
