Sentence examples for on a mandate from inspiring English sources

The problem, critics argue, is that the U.S. is inexplicably placing the cart before the horse, insisting on the particulars of a climate pact before simply agreeing on a mandate to begin negotiating one by 2015, which is really all that's on the table in Durban.

Health insurers also insisted on a mandate, as did the Democrats who controlled Congress.

NYT: About that mandate, during the 2008 primary Barack Obama sparred with your wife about her insistence on a mandate.

And certainly I was elected on a mandate again yesterday with a swing to me on the issue of taking action on climate change".

"Because of the composition of the boards in Sweden, the company's big decisions all have to be based on a mandate or the support of the owners".

Our government was elected on a mandate to end this doom loop; to demand debt restructuring and an end to crippling austerity.

One carry-on, of a mandated size.

In response to repeated probes regarding the organization's position on a mandated warning-device requirement, Lorrie Walker, a spokeswoman for the organization, said, "It's a ticklish subject.

He seems to be planning on winning a mandate for entropy.

New York and New Jersey have sought to override basic actuarial principles by mandating community rating and guaranteed issue on insurers without a mandate on individuals to be insured.

"There's no way the government can claim to have a mandate on anything on industrial relations," he said.