Sentence examples for mandate to rule from inspiring English sources

Regardless, the west has proceeded to expeditiously deepen ties with his government, whose mandate to rule, based on the highly controversial 2010 election, is in itself questionable.

Like those regimes, whether fascist or communist, China's leaders have sought to transform public space and sporting events into visible proof of their fitness and mandate to rule.

The Gambia's autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, who once claimed a "billion-year" mandate to rule, has conceded defeat after a shock election loss to a real-estate developer who once worked as a security guard in London.

For just over a quarter of a century British administrators had tried, and on the whole failed, to make sense of their League of Nations (later United Nations) mandate to rule Palestine.

And the Brotherhood understood their fifty-one-per-cent majority as a mandate to rule.

Hong believed his mandate to rule stemmed from his relation to which holy figure?

Arab involvement was always on the cool side of unenthusiastic, and its propaganda utility was reduced because it came from regimes with no better mandates to rule than Muammar Gaddafi.

The district plans to explore at least three legal remedies, Mr. Rubin said: examining whether the student housing should continue to be classified as tax-exempt; asking the Council on Local Mandates to rule that the state is imposing an unconstitutional unfinanced mandate on the district; and arguing that local taxpayers are paying a disproportionate tax under the State Constitution.

This parallels in some ways the restraints on imperial behavior by Chinese dynasties that sought a perception of popular as well as divinely given mandates to rule.

Significant eosinophilia before transplant may mandate workup to rule out infections associated with it.

Accept that so long as a ruler is competent and virtuous he has a mandate from heaven to rule and therefore it goes against the highest order to overthrow a virtuous ruler.