Sentence examples for mandates are from inspiring English sources

The Elusive Mandate Mandates are elusive because voters cast ballots for people, not policies.

"Mandates are mandates, regardless of the philosophical bent of the person doing the mandating," you said in May 1998.

Political mandates are made in office.

Legal mandates are no substitute for good pedagogic practice.

I think the two mandates are intimately related.

If not matched by resources, mandates are empty.

Environmental assessment mandates are another significant form of environmental law.

Ms. Lowery of G.M. said: "We don't think mandates are a good idea.

Federal mandates are preferable to a voluntary approach that could leave voters in many states unaffected.

Such mandates are already in place throughout the European Union and in China.

All the waste, unchecked entitlements and superfluous mandates are memorialized in law.