For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.
The division's mandate, according to Feroz Khan and other Pakistani generals, was to gain firmer control over a nuclear program that, during its long, secret gestation, had developed somewhat haphazardly.
In the Ugandan capital, the Kampala City Council (KCC) health division is mandated by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to be the local provider of services, including primary health care to local city residents.
The 1972 constitution divided the Supreme Court of Bangladesh into Appellate and High Court divisions and mandated a complete separation of the judiciary and executive branches of government.
In the process, internal differences have been exposed and the president of ABC News, David Westin, has faced uncomfortable questions about his grip on the division and his mandate to take bold strokes to break through the cluttered marketplace of news.
But these firms are constantly fragmenting because Islamic inheritance law mandates the division of property and Arab traditions fail to make a distinction between corporate and family property.Still, Mr Mahajan is right about two big things.
It is 66 years since the United Nations mandated the division of the land into two states.
Now called Global New Business Development, the division has a broader mandate to seek partnerships, spin off companies and license more technology.
At Novozymes, which supplies enzymes to ethanol manufacturers, Adam Monroe, president of the company's North American division, said the biofuels mandate "has generated 400,000 careers, billions in private investment, and domestic, renewable fuel for America".
Senators may not fear as much backlash or internal division about axing the mandate alone as it's always been the least popular part of the ACA.
