Sentence examples for first mandate from inspiring English sources

Archbishop Dolan said that increasing vocations was his "first mandate".

The "Austin Powers" franchise fulfilled the first mandate by casting the star in several roles.

He is the son of a former prime minister and is seeking his first mandate since taking office in 2009.

As transit agencies struggle to keep fares low to fulfill the first mandate, they have to cut service.

That said, Sather laid down his first mandate since becoming team president and general manager on June 1.

If that belief were to vanish because the S.E.C. did a bad job on the first mandate, the commission would have no chance to fulfill the second one.

Eleven years later, as Iraq, it became the first mandated territory to obtain independence.

"One of the first mandates of the existing government was, 'Do not touch the gorillas,' " Ms. Rugamba said.

New York's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, is right to ask, "Where's the science?" supporting President Bush's "scientifically proven" Reading First mandates.

After Europe first mandated recycling electronics like televisions and computers, two to three million tons of electronic waste was turned in last year, far less than the seven million tons anticipated.

The "strengths and weaknesses" language was slipped into the curriculum standards in Texas to appease creationists when the State Board of Education first mandated the teaching of evolution in the late 1980s.