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"Appliance manufacturers are all given mandates to increase their energy efficiency by certain standards, and the guy who goes the lowest becomes the benchmark," Mr. Shantaram explained.

They are hired by board members who often want big changes after years, even decades with leaders like Mr. Zacek, and they are often given mandates to take the theaters in new directions.

This parallels in some ways the restraints on imperial behavior by Chinese dynasties that sought a perception of popular as well as divinely given mandates to rule.

In the area of global health, many of these structures were institutionalized and given mandates to galvanize actions in a range of areas neglected by existing institutional arrangements.

In a functioning democracy, such behavior is an affront to the very principles that allow people to give mandates to governments.

The various regulatory bodies that oversee the energy business have been given new mandates to prevent market dominance, notes Francisco Salazar, the head of one of them, the Energy Regulatory Commission.

According to Ian Johnson, authorities were given broad mandates to eliminate Falun Gong and pursue the coercive conversion of practitioners, but were not scrutinised for the methods they used.

The Security Council passed a unanimous resolution on Nov. 13 commending the report and promising to do its part by giving clearer mandates to peacekeeping operations.

"The Greek people have not given a mandate to destroy the country, nor to leave the euro," he said.

"It's the second choice, the safety school, they have been given a mandate to up their ranking nationally".

Mr Mosseri was given the mandate to make it easier for people to express themselves without the need to post an entire comment.