Sentence examples for mandate to uphold from inspiring English sources

"Agencies have a mandate to uphold the Migratory Bird Treaty Act," Mr. Johns said.

"President Duterte has been elected on a mandate to uphold the rule of law.

There has often been tension between the ideal of academic freedom and the mandate to uphold church teaching at Catholic colleges.

In their minds, their reëlection to Congress gave them a mandate to uphold ultra-conservative positions, especially on those issues that bind together the conservative movement: guns, God, and taxes.

The case turned on questions of historic preservation and a town's mandate to uphold its own statutes rather then bend them to the wishes of a single, powerful local property owner.

Learn about UNICEF's mandate to uphold the rights of every child.

On Friday night, he released a letter saying that he would no longer co-operate with the commission – a body mandated by parliament to uphold UK electoral law – and said he would "see them in court".

But his secular opponents argue that he undermined his mandate by failing to uphold the wider values on which a successful democracy depends.

The government, as per its election mandate, is trying to uphold the true history of the independence of the country which was subjected to distortion by successive military and pseudo-military governments.

Big health insurance honchos must be licking their chops, since the Supreme Court decision to uphold mandate taxes means everyone will be forced to buy their products.

Chief Justice Roberts has the opportunity to avoid this disastrous outcome by forging even a narrow ruling to uphold the mandate and the rest of the law.