Sentence examples for governing mandates from inspiring English sources

Recent history would suggest, though, that new majorities are inclined to misread or inflate their governing mandates.

Whether that argument becomes the dominant narrative matters, because it will shape what sort of a governing mandate Mr. Obama is deemed to have won.

It could take an interim government and another election to get a clear governing mandate.

In theory a convincing victory might at least produce a governing mandate rather than gridlock.

He would then have the strongest governing mandate in years.For the moment Mr Abe is trying hard to kick-start the economy.

Each time one of them has proclaimed a broad governing mandate, or seemed to have achieved one, the voters have pushed back.

He talked for a minute or two at one point about how important it was to use the campaign to build a governing mandate for the first 100 days of a Bush presidency.

After years of parliamentary gridlock, a Japanese prime minister is set to have a governing mandate to do nearly anything he wants.For those who followed Mr Abe's brief and inglorious first term in office both the substance of the policy pronouncements and the slickness of their delivery are something of a puzzle.

Dean inherited a party so dispirited after its defeat in 2004 that few other Democrats of note expressed the least interest in running it; the party he relinquishes this January, making way for whomever Obama chooses to succeed him, will firmly control all three power centers in Washington, brandishing a decisive governing mandate for the first time since 1992.

Whoever wins next month, he or she will claim a governing "mandate" based on their victorious popular-vote total.

Unity requires more than a governing mandate but also the vision and the wisdom to heal rather than to polarize.