Sentence examples for election mandate from inspiring English sources

His Kadima party did not receive an overwhelming election mandate.

Each successive recent administration has overread its election mandate.

In effect, he is trying to leverage what he claims as an election mandate to force Republicans to take ownership of the difficult choices ahead.

He was driven out by plunging approval ratings after breaking campaign promises and seeming to fritter away the Democrats' historic election mandate.

WASHINGTON - Step 1 for Congressional Republicans, in pursuing their perceived election mandate, was the new spending-cut compromise with President Obama, reached Friday.

Bush, if he wins, would not be bound by the reactionary platform in the way a British leader is hostage to his party's election mandate.

Fresh off a 2003 re-election mandate, one of Daley's first major acts was ordering the demolition of Meigs Field.

During the program, he defended this decision, explaining he had a pre-election mandate to put this debate before the "Coalition party room in the usual way".

Among the progressive reforms advocated by McCreary and passed in the 1912 legislative session were making women eligible to vote in school board elections, mandating direct primary elections, and allowing the state's counties to hold local option elections to decide whether or not to adopt prohibition.

During his second term, he succeeded in convincing the legislature to make women eligible to vote in school board elections, to mandate direct primary elections, to create a state public utilities commission, and to allow the state's counties to hold local option elections to decide whether or not to adopt prohibition.

Even part-time workers are granted paid leave fulfilling an Election Commission mandate that every eligible voter shall be given the proper means to fulfill their right.