Sentence examples for vague mandate from inspiring English sources

Tan was dispatched to Sierra Leone in October 2014 with a vague mandate: "Go there and improve things".

The vague mandate of the new upper house of parliament, which consists of non-partisan regional representatives, is also a recipe for strife.

It called for a co-operation "initiative" with a vague mandate to pursue confidence-building measures.This greatly annoyed the Afghans, who wanted something more.

Instead of the vague mandate of "adequate yearly progress," federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertising — on reliably describing achievement (or lack thereof) and spending.

But with the vague mandate described, it remained an open question whether the panel would conduct its own investigation or simply review what is produced by the opposing sides.

Foreigners are not yet allowed to own stakes in Internet content providers or Internet service providers here, constraints that AOL and Legend reflected in outlining their venture's vague mandate.

Since then, the guidelines, which call for restricting tourism to 20 percent of the parks' core areas and limit construction in the tigers' primary habitat, have created confusion among states over how to interpret the ministry's vague mandates.

The president's anti-trafficking executive order simply restates existing policy and delivers vague mandates such as "enhance cooperation with foreign counterparts".

Congress can draw clear lines that empower regulators to act for the public interest and minimize vague mandates that can be exploited by shrewd companies.

Legislators would have to vote on the rules -- that is, the laws -- which unelected agency officials issue under vague mandates from Congress.

We suggest that when contemplating the use of vague mandates in terms of partnership composition and governance arrangements to speed up implementation, policy-makers need to take into account the likely variation between partnerships that will arise.