Sentence examples for small mandate from inspiring English sources

The government is aware of it, but it has relatively weak political capital now and a small mandate".

That's no small mandate.

Despite a relatively small mandate in terms of votes, some socialists took to the streets to free political prisoners, without waiting for the government to do so officially.

He had won a landslide election in 1997 and a renewed though smaller mandate in 2001.

This would include a role for a Bosnian-style High Representative, although with a smaller mandate.

And Mr. Bush is new at this. "If he wins Florida, he will have the smallest mandate any president ever had," said Senator Charles Schumer of New York, a Democrat.

At the helm of his own independent production company, with offices back on the Warner Brothers lot, Mr. Canton suddenly found himself facing a new, smaller mandate: to shepherd only a handful of films.

"We will behave in a way that is respectful of the democratically elected government although we are bound to acknowledge the fact that this Government has one of the smallest mandates that I can think of," he said.

As a result, superintendents and school board members who once focused on big-ticket expenses like pensions and health care are now analyzing smaller mandates, like a 2007 law requiring districts to give employees paid leave for breast cancer and prostate screenings.

Then came a small underwriting mandate for a Montana-based supermarket chain, sold to former Drexel clients who remain clients of Jefferies today.In retrospect, Jefferies had hit on an abundant resource that has served it well since: refugees.

It was a small change, mandated by the Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul law.