The Bureau of Investigation began with a modest mandate to investigate antitrust cases, several types of fraud, and certain crimes committed on government property or by government officials.
That makes a deceptively modest mandate for such an astute, gracefully wrought book about the art of endurance in everyday life.
Or, if you're a "Big Society/Small Government" LibCon, how about a more modest mandate still: we could ask the state to leave off promoting statistical innumeracy and the inability to understand risk and reward.
Analyst Joshua Shanker said new Chief Executive Bob Willumstad Bob Willumstad does not represent a change in strategy, but with only a modest mandate — "stop the bleeding" — the bar for his success is low.
In a letter to the IRS objecting to this seemingly modest mandate, Sotheby's senior vice president, Jonathan A. Olsoff said on-the-job training was more relevant, declaring, "No coursework can train a person for the job of a Sotheby's specialist".
If a party with such a modest electoral mandate threatens to shut down government unless the other side repeals a law it does not like, apparently settled legislation will always be vulnerable to repeal by the minority.
The suit — brought by 2 men and 15 women, both veterans and active-duty service members — specifically claims that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and his predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, "ran institutions in which perpetrators were promoted and where military personnel openly mocked and flouted the modest Congressionally mandated institutional reforms".
As a result, the company was required to contact nearly1,000 qualified applicants who had been denied employment and either offer them a job or a portion of the modest settlement mandated by the government.
The treaty, which mandates modest cuts in long-range nuclear weapons, is on its way to approval by the Duma, the lower house of Parliament in Russia.
A petite human-rights lawyer, she tucks her short, feathered hair behind bright scarves, to comply with laws mandating modest Islamic dress.
With a cheaper and more modest insurance package mandated under a retooled law, employers would be less intent on dropping coverage.
