Modi's critics may roll their eyes at the euphoria in Madison Square Garden or bristle at the rock star treatment given to him by foreign leaders, but should realize that this support is also essential for his mandate to succeed -- a mandate that could impact not only India but its global trading partners as well.
They consider it civil rights legislation, but insurers and employers -- potent lobby groups who view it as a costly and unnecessary new mandate -- have largely succeeded in blocking it.
Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy at Harvard, said that while the individual mandate had more or less succeeded in Massachusetts, it would have a much harder road to acceptance in states where more of the population is uninsured.
Even though Mr. Giuliani cannot, for the most part, mandate spending by the mayor who succeeds him, housing advocates consider the plan to increase spending for the three years after he leaves office an important step.
By 2004, for example, Arkansas' Governor Michael Huckabee succeeded in implementing legislation mandating that all schools measure students' BMI index, while providing "weight report cards" to families; several states, such as California, Florida, and Pennsylvania, adopted these policies [ 68].
Homeland Security officials had a tough challenge in meeting the Congressional mandate, but in large part they succeeded: by August of this year, 100 percent of cargo on passenger flights within and from the United States was being physically screened.
Attempts to mandate use of the technology seem unlikely to succeed, because small arms are made in many countries.
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.
Because of their parentage, they believe themselves to be the heirs of the revolution that succeeded in 1949, endowed with the mandate of authority that that status confers.
