"slim mandate" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to a small or narrow majority or authority given to someone or a group. Example: The new leader of the party won the election with a slim mandate of only 52% of the vote. The company's CEO was able to push through the controversial decision with a slim mandate from the board of directors.
And when the Union, led by a president with a slim mandate, strove to end the system of human property, the bloodiest American war erupted, with suffering that extends to continuing racial conflicts.
Coach Ben Olsen and GM Dave Kasper began planning for this year last summer, with the slim mandate of an Open Cup run that unexpectedly ended in them winning the trophy in Salt Lake, and as Olsen might describe it, the rather more significant mandate of the unwavering support of his own fans.
"A lot of the things Maduro did were a bad imitation of the commander and it felt wrong". Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College, said the slim mandate would complicate Maduro's ability to deal with three key challenges: coping with a troubled economy, dealing with a resurgent opposition and maintaining party loyalty.
Why not just govern like you won? George W. Bush, with a much slimmer electoral mandate in both 2000 and 2004, and much slimmer majorities in the House and Senate for most of his presidency, sometimes ran the country like he got 80% of the vote and had huge Republican majorities in Congress.
Most are obliged to govern with slim electoral mandates.
Others want its overly broad mandate slimmed down.
Jolly avoided the subject of Obamacare in his victory speech on Tuesday evening, noting that his margin of victory was too slim to "take a mandate from this".
If "Obamacare" is overturned, the prospects for passage of a similar proposal even without the mandate provision are slim, at least for the next few years.
His mandate is to slim down the bank, which ran into trouble after an acquisition spree, and revive the business so as to be able to repay government aid.
Together, the three amendments would increase support to the mid-50s, as would the combination of tort reform and a public option, while tort reform and elimination of the individual mandate yields a slim plurality of support.
And it's hard to interpret his slim victory margin as a mandate to enact any part of that agenda, whether it be building a border wall, making it even harder for refugees from war zones to enter the U.S. or busting the federal budget with multitrillion-dollar tax cuts.
