You have to gain a mandate for change.
Obama gained a mandate from the U.N. Security Council, working with the European Union to rally the Arab League.
In Brussels, officials said the parameters of the discussion were being set by German domestic politics and, in particular, by the need for Mrs. Merkel to gain a mandate from Parliament.
They are in urgent need, and countries can invoke the UN Responsibility to Protect as the legal basis for intervention, our treaty responsibilities for the security of allies, or gain a mandate from the Arab League.
Dunstan called an election for March 1973, hoping to gain a mandate to seek changes to the Council.
Hopefully Obama will carry this message through 2012, and gain a mandate to use his second term to take on the growing inequities and game-rigging practices that have been undermining the American economy and American democracy for years.
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez, long a fiery foe of Washington, won re-election on Sunday, facing down cancer and the strongest electoral challenge of his nearly 14 years in office and gaining a new mandate to deepen his socialist revolution.
Such defectors are, not very astonishingly, among the loudest advocates of the principle that British members of parliament are elected as individuals, gaining a personal mandate which is independent of any party or faction.
The Fidesz party that he leads gained a hefty mandate in the 2010 elections and has since then, quite rightly in his supporters' eyes, carrying out his mandate of stabilisation and reform.
Mr Ashdown will speak on Sunday to gain a renewed mandate for his tactic of constructive opposition, and he will undoubtedly get it.
