Sentence examples for early mandate from inspiring English sources

Its early mandate was simple if Sisyphean: to compile, using a hulking I.B.M. mainframe computer, a collective database of holdings that could be used at specially designated terminals in museums, universities and libraries.

Instead of relying on this, he was obsessed with winning an early mandate of his own.A big mistake: the voters now look unlikely to give him a mandate worth having.

It has been working for many months now to revamp its Web site, which will relaunch in the summer, and the departments of the museum are on their way to meeting an early mandate of Mr. Campbell's to ensure that an online record exists for every object in the collection — more than 1.6 million of them.

An earlier mandate by the Air Resources Board to cut tailpipe emissions of heat-trapping gases was effectively vetoed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency in December.

Our obligation now is to fulfill our earlier mandates.

Earlier mandates around data collection - ones that allow law enforcement tovoluntarily report data without penalty --aren't working.

Between the Ottomans and the Entente tells how the Syrian and Lebanese mahjar (diaspora) became a geopolitical frontier between the Young Turk Revolution and the early French Mandate.

During the early French Mandate period which began in 1920, al-Kharrat served the role of al-Shaghour's qabaday.

Texas, an early innovator, mandated probation for low-level possession of many drugs in 2003, before enacting its far more sweeping overhaul of incarceration policies in 2007.

The Obama administration has estimated that on average the law's early consumer mandates would increase premiums by less than 2percentt.

But the law of narrative (and the law of desire, to cite one of his early titles) mandates trouble, and Harry's curious English pseudonym, evoking both "The Third Man" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," is a premonition of lurking shadows.