She's accomplished this sleight of hand by extending her purview from issues of ethical concern to a seeming mandate to confer approval – even if a knotty, withholding sort.
The chapters describe each country's security apparatus, its budget and personnel, the mandate and powers conferred on it by legislation or executive orders, and consider the often uneasy relationship between the activities of national security services, and democratic control and human rights.
Mr. Bremer and other top American officials say they believe Security Council Resolution 1511, which conferred the mandate for the American-led alliance, can be used to provide legal justification for the American military command to operate until Dec. 31, 2005.
National park status, often considered the most fundamental of mandates, is not necessarily conferred in perpetuity.
Of course, when such modern markets are rising, they ipso facto help prove that "the mandate" is still conferring legitimacy on China's rulers, and so can be left unattended.
Neither Mr Juncker nor the European parliament has a mandate as strong as those conferred on national governments.
This is an ancient notion, dating back to imperial times, when an emperor's reign was believed to be legitimised by a so-called "mandate of heaven," (tianming), that conferred the right on a sovereign to rule.
It also mandated that lead plaintiff status be conferred on parties that had suffered the heaviest financial damages, ending the race to the courthouse to file cases first.
In elections in December 1993 Yeltsin succeeded in getting a popular mandate for the new constitution, which conferred much greater powers on the president than Yeltsin had enjoyed under the 1978 (Soviet) constitution.
