Sentence examples for democratic mandates from inspiring English sources

They exploit their democratic mandates to govern as dictators — "democratators," as Simon calls them.

But it is not a machine for generating democratic mandates: the distance between voters and MEPs is too large, and the parliament's style of coalition politics too opaque.

They simply failed to assess whether reforms, structural or not, could be sustained in countries ruled by potentates without legitimate democratic mandates.

Democratic mandates to sharply increase the use of renewable fuels could initially lead to higher prices at the gas pump, much as the mandate to blend ethanol into gasoline contributed to higher prices in 2005.

Mostly, though, his model was America, where Mr Hilton noted that many of the boldest public sector reforms of recent years whether in policing, education or the delivery of community services were pushed through by the dynamic city mayors, able to use their personal democratic mandates to take on vested interests from local business cartels to public sector trade unions.

While there has been much speculation that Scottish Labour may alter its policy on a second referendum following the Brexit vote, Dugdale maintained that the democratic mandates of the referendums on Scottish independence and the EU must be respected, while arguing that "we should keep all options on the table".

Mr. Latortue has no democratic mandate.

All without a clear democratic mandate.

The government has a democratic mandate to reform.

Yet long-term reforms need a clear democratic mandate.

This provides more than an ethical, democratic mandate.