The president has a substantial democratic mandate for reform, gaining 54% and 67% of the vote in two elections.
If there were ever an upper chamber which could claim a substantial electoral mandate, those days would be over.
In 1950, for instance, the U.S. judicial system found that the Ute tribe had been illegally defrauded of land in the 19th century; while the courts did not revert title to the land, they did mandate substantial monetary compensation.
"Therefore, I'm issuing an executive order mandating substantial water reductions across our state.
And that means, one way or another, limiting the threat posed by banks, either by directly limiting size, or mandating substantial capital cushions, or taxing leverage, or something else.I think it's very worthwhile to go back and re-evaluate everything that was done through the crisis, because other crises will occur no matter what happens, and there may be useful lessons to learn.
But I'm predicting that on appeal, that powerful factual pull will be less influential, and the appellate court will focus more on the legal rules mandating substantial deference to arbitrators' decisions.
Nicola Sturgeon has said that "dramatically changed political circumstances in Scotland", which saw the SNP win 56 out of 59 seats in the general election, amounts to "a mandate for substantial further powers beyond those recommended by the Smith process" and thus contained in the draft Scotland bill.
But in practice, they're unwilling to accept what writing those principles into law would entail: namely, some form of individual mandate and/or substantial subsidies.
As such, a substantial proportion supported both mandated interventions and parental authorisation.
While the economic costs of reducing bycatch are substantial, many successful conservation mandates enacted over the past 150 years directly reduced mortality of at-risk species and often had very large economic costs.
