Sentence examples for smaller mandates from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
The government is aware of it, but it has relatively weak political capital now and a small 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.
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.
Keeping the quota for advanced fuels intact was more or less O.K. when the agency waived smaller cellulosic mandates, said Jeremy I. Martin, a senior scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists' clean vehicles program.
Of course, Germany has a smaller population, mandated access to airtime on television and nothing like the Citizens United ruling.
