Sentence examples for mandated to act from inspiring English sources

Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition objecting to the plans submitted to the London Legacy Development Corporation LLDCC), the body mandated to act as the planning authority for the Olympic park.

On Monday, with the 17-year process of Russia's entry nearing its endgame, Georgian officials confirmed that they would sit down with their Russian counterparts in Switzerland, which "has been mandated to act as a mediator between both countries," said a spokeswoman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry.

"The structure is such that in many ways they will have the authority and mandate to act," he said.

A report by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services released recently acknowledged that operational and political constraints within missions were at odds with their legal authority and mandate to act and that some missions felt outnumbered and stretched "making the use of force only a paper option".

"In UNICEF Viet Nam, we believe that it is our duty and mandate to act as a convener for these engagements between the two countries.

It's also about what the regulators are mandated to do, and whether they act.

The Panama Papers made the commission's mandate to act "clearer than ever", Moscovici said.

Secondly, politicians here in the UK need a mandate to act.

George H.W. Bush worried that he lacked the public mandate to act firmly against Iraq.

Why did we carry out the drone strike and not leave it to the US who have the ability and the mandate to act?

Lacking a consensus in the Security Council, with Russia continuing to oppose military action, he said there was no mandate to act.