That does not seem like the kind of mandate that Kennedy will feel compelled to join.
Just curious — is the repeated inclusion of graphic soft-core sex scenes based on a creative decision, or some kind of mandate dictated by HBO execs?
Having a personal connection to a tragedy is a special qualification — and a kind of mandate — but emotional investment can also be blinding.
The Tories would crow that, having faced no opponent for the Labour leadership and ducked a general election, he possesses neither courage nor any kind of mandate.
Mr. Ryan, whose sweeping House budget plan that sharply reduces government was embraced by Mr. Romney, can claim that he, too, won a kind of mandate.
But in the last couple of weeks Senate Republican opposition to any kind of mandate, individual or employer, has seemed to harden.
But for the winners, the question becomes what kind of mandate they can have when many people may be questioning the election results.
His margin of victory appeared to be a resounding win that delivered the kind of mandate two of his predecessors, both of whom were forced to resign, never had.
Bono, Browne charges, has become "the caring face of global technocracy", who, without any kind of mandate, has assumed the role of spokesperson for Africa, then used that role to provide "humanitarian cover" for western leaders.
The Romney campaign trumpeted the victory, but there was only a smattering of applause in the auditorium when his name was announced and the event's organizers cautioned against his deriving any kind of mandate from the results.
