Pressed by Mr Mann, Mr Carney said: "I think … a central bank that has operational independence to achieve a mandate defined by the people through Parliament is the right model, and it is the model for which I as Governor and my colleagues on the MPC are fully accountable.
As part of its mandate, defined by the United Nations Security Council, the Office of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office UNJHROO) in the DRC provides close monitoring of human rights abuses.
The CPLP later issued a statement of condemnation and also called for a UN-authorised military intervention saying that it had "take[n] the initiative of...forming an interposition force in Guinea-Bissau, with a mandate defined by the United Nations Security Council" that would seek to maintain "constitutional order, protect civilians and the country's legitimate institutions".
We've examined, among other issues, how the mandate defines affordable, how it treats workers whose hours vary — even whether it could be used as catalyst for hiring formerly undocumented immigrants.
For years the U.S. Congress has been watching from the sidelines as the Federal Communications Commission has struggled with its core mandate, defining ownership rules for electronic media.
The emergence of private governance, in itself, gives rise to the role of the state in four areas: mandating (defining minimum standards for business performance embedded within the legal framework), facilitating (developing enabling conditions or providing incentives), partnership (bringing complementary skills and inputs), and endorsing (giving political support) (Fox et al., 2002).
Although the secretariat provided administrative and logistic support, the committee, under the chairmanship of Harvey Fineberg, enjoyed complete autonomy in interpreting their mandate, defining their methods of work, and identifying their evidence.
Its mandate was defined in relatively narrow terms, focusing on executions, disappearances and cases of torture that resulted in death (leaving out a large number of torture survivors).
LPAs' mandate is defined as: influencing policy makers to take greater account of children's rights; promoting the participation of children; raising awareness of child rights among children and adults; ensuring that children have effective means of redress when their rights are violated.
UNHCR's founding mandate defines refugees as people who are outside their country and cannot return owing to a well-founded fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group.
