"That's the mandate members have given to leaders".
"If they strip Gudkov of his mandate, members of United Russia must follow him," Mr. Mitrokhin wrote.
So, while Western Europeans fought for a compromise United Nations resolution on Iraq and sniff with disdain at Mr. Bush's midterm election mandate, members of the Romanian elite heartily approve of the White House's policies.
But once upon a time, elected officials held themselves to higher standards than bawdy laypersons, and Blanton's letter violated the House Rules of Decorum, which mandate members of Congress "refrain from using profane or vulgar language," both on the floor and in written records, i.e. handouts and the Record itself.
The site also provides information on the group's mandate, members, and publications in progress.
Because of their particular position in the CSSS (in response to a subregional mandate), members had a more flexible time frame that facilitated their involvement in the HPL.
In theory, says Nikolai Petrov of the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow, it is even possible to create new parliamentary parties, by moving members from a large party to one that failed the 5% barrier but got at least one single-mandate member.
The House does have an ethics standard mandating members behave "at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House".
The European commission in Brussels may have overstepped the mark in trying to mandate EU member states to take 40,000 asylum seekers between them but the member states will have to agree something stronger and more coherent than the recent "push-pull" debate over naval action in the Med.
Associations must have the authority over and the mandate from member firms to negotiate an agreement with the union(s) and bind its member firms to its terms.
