Sentence examples for diminished mandate from inspiring English sources

The general emerged from the elections with a diminished mandate for his support of the American campaign against terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks last year.

"We're not in a constitutional crisis, but the American people are growing weary, and whoever wins is having a rapidly diminishing mandate, to say the least".

Even the more optimistic of his internal opponents now think the best they can hope for is that his majority goes down, diminishing his mandate.

Fearful that President Obama's approach would diminish their mandate and justification for nuclear weapons, the ruling clerics appear to have manipulated the vote by a people seeking moderation and reform.

If Mr Corbyn could be run reasonably close, so backers of the challenge hoped, it would diminish the "mandate" that he and his supporters have spent the last 12 months brandishing in the face of Labour MPs.

And the primacy of the inflation mandate diminished the status of the bank's financial-stability wing.

The fact that investment bank holding companies could withdraw from this voluntary supervision at their discretion diminished the perceived mandate" of the program, and "weakened its effectiveness," he added.

There is a question of whether athletes should bring political and social issues into the arena, but national leaders have certainly done it, mandating boycotts that diminished Summer Olympic Games in Moscow and Los Angeles.

Public colleges organized as systems also developed effective strategies, although bureaucratic guidelines sometimes diminished the effectiveness of central office mandates.

But a re-elected Obama will be a permanently diminished Obama, with no magic left in his public persona and no mandate save to stay the current economic course.

If the Supreme Court invalidates the Florida court action, the prospect of "dueling slates of electors mandated by dueling branches of Florida's government is substantially diminished".