Sentence examples for mandate when from inspiring English sources

The junta's security forces exceeded even that sweeping mandate when targeting dissidents for elimination.

And that's not really much of a mandate, when you think about it.

"I wasn't given any mandate when I arrived here seven years ago.

Born in Poland in 1923, he and his family moved to Palestine under the British mandate when he was 11.

You got a bit of a honeymoon and a bit of a mandate when you won an election.

"Keep it off the front pages" was Hunt's mandate when he took over from the doomed Andrew Lansley.

The tests were mandated when the Illinois attorney general sued the district in 1985 after news media reports and a Better Government Association investigation alleged patronage hiring.

The name change was mandated when the Carlyle Group investment firm, which also controls, Hertz, Dunkin' Donuts and Allison Transmission, took over DuPont Performance Coatings this year.

In fact, many argued, among them Governor Ridge, that it was disingenuous for Democrats to accuse a Republican administration of failing to pay for federal mandates when many of the underfinanced mandates were imposed while Democrats were in charge.

Otherwise, it no longer mandates when or how doctors respond to requests, as long as "the patient makes an independent decision to self-administer a lethal dose of medication".

But this is not enough, according to the culture ministry, which mandated when it set up the foundation that runs the museum that the state would be a minor financial contributor.