Sentence examples for mandate was set from inspiring English sources

For political reasons, however, the penalty for flouting this "individual mandate" was set at a very low initial level, which is supposed to grow gradually.

"I wish to assure you nothing has changed - our mandate was set then and despite it all we must fulfil it.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, operating under a United Nations mandate, was set up in Arusha to judge the most senior leaders responsible for the genocide.

The commission's mandate is set to expire this month, and Parliament was supposed to approve, with advisory support from the United Nations, new representatives to the nine-person panel by the end of the month.

But even though an immediate showdown between Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Fini's rebel lawmakers seems to have been averted, political tensions remain high and early elections — the government's mandate is set to end in 2013 — loom on the horizon as an increasingly possible scenario.

While Mr. Fini's deputies are in play, as is a centrist party heavily courted by both right and left, Northern League leaders say this time around they will back Mr. Berlusconi — but, at least for now, they want elections next spring, two years before the government's mandate is set to end.

The OBR has quite a wide remit to analyse the public finances, but its mandate is set down in law and there are some restrictions over what it can do.

While the UNMISS mandate is set to expire in July, the US is pushing the Security Council to narrow the mandate in the coming weeks to focus exclusively on protecting civilians.

The use of drones and other advanced weapons, increasing urbanisation and the constraints of UN mandates are set to drive up child casualties over the next 20 years, a report warned on Wednesday.

In the USA, these mandates are set by the states and are known as Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS).

In the US, the only truly national deadly force behavioral mandates are set by the Supreme Court, which in 1989 deemed it constitutionally permissible for police to use deadly force when they "reasonably" perceive imminent and grave harm.