Each successive recent administration has overread its election mandate.
Successive governments have been too timid in mandating good practice in the vain hope that a combination of big schemes, encouragement, incentives and limited pressure would do the trick.
Such software must usually be passed on with a copyleft license that requires successive users to accept and transmit copyleft and mandates that any modifications or improvements to the copylefted software be likewise transmitted under copyleft.
This mandate, however, has been narrowly interpreted by successive generations of memorial officials whose Anzac-centric focus continues to stubbornly exclude the fierce battles for sovereignty between Aboriginal Australians and pastoral settlers across the frontier, which are at the dark heart of Australia's nationhood.
These minority-decided switches in power might not matter were it not for the partisan legislation that each successive minority British government since 1964 has felt itself mandated to whip through the lobbies.This mountain of minority-mandated legislation has grown remorselessly.
The successive processing stage, implementing a low-pass filter, is mandated to drastically attenuate out-of-band noise components.
Subsequently, as sovereign Iraq has moved by stages through elections and complex deliberations to the formation of its current government, the United Nations has renewed the mandate for the multinational force at the request of successive Iraqi prime ministers — Ibrahim al-Jaafari in 2005 and Nuri Kamal al-Maliki last year.
With its successive coverage announcements for heart, liver, and lung transplants [ 5- 7], Medicare has mandated similar volume standards, thereby linking benchmarking to reimbursement for all major solid organ transplants.
It is a vision of successive industrial empires who stay in power only as long as they enjoy Heaven's mandate.
How much more sensible, in today's circumstances, to match the presidential mandate with the five-year parliamentary term and, while you are at it, to limit the number of successive presidential terms to two.Perhaps Mr Chirac still does not agree.
