Sentence examples for overwhelming mandates from inspiring English sources

In Thailand and the Philippines the election winners were incumbents, but their overwhelming mandates were unprecedented.

We have long charged our schools with several overwhelming mandates, including rectification of social and economic equality.

Second, we explain our understandings of critical junctures as important moments in policy development that radically alter the trajectory of policy (Pierson 2004) and produce "overwhelming mandates for policy and/or structural change" (Hogan and Doyle 2009, 213).

But that overwhelming mandate proved to be anything but shatterproof.

McDonnell said Benn had recognised "the overwhelming mandate" Corbyn had from party members.

Mr. Pastrana took office in 1998 with an overwhelming mandate to negotiate peace.

Lacking political experience, she held back from making the most of her overwhelming mandate.

A result, they say, is that no winning party can get an overwhelming mandate.

Support for independence has been rising steadily since the re-election of the Scottish Government with such an overwhelming mandate.

The ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said the 102-year-old party – which has held power since helping to end apartheid in 1994 – would receive "an overwhelming mandate" from voters.

The overwhelming mandate that voters have given Morales has left his opponents worrying about the future of the party system in Bolivia.