But the United States ambassador, Susan Rice, described a narrower mandate — receiving the conclusions of separate Israeli and Turkish investigations into the flotilla attack but focusing on preventing future incidents.
In 1994, during the debate over the Clinton health care plan, the Congressional Budget Office described an individual mandate as "an unprecedented form of federal action".
The spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, said she would have an economic portfolio, which another United States official described as a mandate to promote economic liberalization and American trade and investment in the region.
The new policy, described as a mandate from Commissioner Gary Bettman, was presented to the league's board of governors today and comes three months after the death of a 13-year-old girl, Brittanie Cecil, who was hit by a puck during an N.H.L. game in Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Kaabi, 39, took office in late 2004, with what he describes as a mandate to do just that, for ethical and practical purposes, a departure from the Labor Ministry's earlier focus on processing employer requests for more foreign hires.
"[T]he governor has consistently described the mandate as a penalty," said Fehrnstrom. "Let's take a step back and look at what the president has said about Obamacare.
Under Mr. Tanner's scheme, the Democrats could have campaigned on the "component parts," described the mandate as a payment mechanism, and defied the opposition to come up with a viable alternative to it.
Sir David Nicholson who as the new head of the Commissioning Board which takes over next April described the mandate as "a major step on the road to the more liberated and innovative NHS that can be more responsive to its patients".
Three minutes later, a beaming Mr. Karamanlis, 51, arrived at the election headquarters, claiming a victory that he described as "a strong mandate for a new and more dynamic beginning".
In a speech earlier this year, Damon Vander Lind, the project's chief engineer, described the mandate that Makani had received from Google, its initial investor: "Hey, we love wind power, but could you just go ahead and make it half the price and twice as reliable?'' Vander Lind told me, "We have made it really simple.
