Sentence examples for mandate or a from inspiring English sources

"We will not support a mandate or a subsidy requiring biomass," Mr. Bellsnyder said.

Otherwise, politicians should simply be bolder, present their really significant policies at elections, and accept the outcome as a mandate or a rejection.

He would face a Hobson's choice between a group of war crimes suspects with no democratic mandate, or a neighbouring state that denies the first premise of its own complicity.

Fatah, the major political movement in the West Bank, is a revolutionary party that has exhausted itself; ossified and murky, lacking a popular mandate or a strategy to deliver statehood, headed by a 78-year-old man, Abbas, who did not have the courage to embrace the political program of an outsider, Fayyad, even though that program delivered growth, accountability and security.

Second, if dilemmas do persist, they should become political issues and require a political mandate or a legal guideline.

In a recent article, Regina Umpstead (2008) questions whether the NCLB is an unfunded mandate or a promotion of federal educational ideals.

He is a man without a mandate or an answer to the deficit, and that makes him weak".

He challenged the legality of the new U.S.-led military campaign in Syria, operating without an international mandate or an invitation by the Syrian government.

HENDRIK HERTZBERG: The Nixon proposal would have had public subsidies to help people buy private insurance and either an employer mandate or an individual mandate, I forget which, to make sure everybody or nearly everybody got covered.

"Nothing about the campaign has approved a mandate or an agenda," said Ed Rogers, a White House official under President Ronald Reagan and the first President Bush who is now a top lobbyist.

Public opinion polls indicate that the most Britons strongly oppose an invasion of Iraq, at least in the absence of a United Nations mandate or an effort to send weapons inspectors back there.