Dunderdale's government inherited its mandate, resources, and organization from Williams.
With full commitment and support from SEE countries, donor countries and other international actors, the Regional Cooperation Council inherited the mandate of the Stability Pact.
Kim Jong Il is portrayed as inheriting the mandate of Tangun, the mythical founder of Korea 5,000 years ago (whose mother was a she-bear impregnated by the god of heaven).
While Lakhdar Brahimi's mission on behalf of the U.N. Security Council and the Arab League to facilitate peace is admirable, he inherits a mandate that utterly failed, and conditions for peace have only gotten worse.
The European bank, by contrast, is skeptical of the notion that inflation automatically falls when growth cools, and it has a mandate, inherited from the German central bank, to keep prices stable above all else.
Except that a lot of people actually did doubt that Cheney "inherited" a situation mandating an attack on Iraq, the extent of Saddam's involvement in WMDs, and the techniques by which Cheney cherry-picked his intelligence.
Until then, they had been (and, to some extent, still are) viewed as collaborators with the Jewish state.Thanks to an obsession with schooling that Israel inherited from the British Mandate governors, Arab literacy in Palestine had shot up since the start of the 20th century.
Israel's borders were defined by the war for survival that followed its independence; apart from the external borders inherited from the British mandate, its borders with Gaza (occupied by the Egyptians) and the West Bank (annexed by the Jordanians) were the armistice lines of 1949.
If not, the winning candidate will risk inheriting a fragile mandate that will soon erode in the face of the challenges he avoided forthrightly addressing in the campaign.
A new slate of officials--including Democrat James K. Hahn, who won the mayor's office; Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo, another Democrat, who won in a close city attorney's race; and a number of left-leaning City Council candidates--stand poised to inherit a strong mandate.
Israel inherited this undemocratic procedure from the British mandate, which enacted it as part of the 1945 emergency regulations.
