Sentence examples for valid mandate from inspiring English sources

'If people are properly selected by their party and win a valid mandate from the voters, it is simply undemocratic that our ancient law can prevent those elected members from taking their place in the House,' Mc Donagh told Parliament at the time.

After all, the Obama administration takes the position that Obamacare's expanded coverage of children is a valid mandate, in clear contradiction to the Supreme Court's decision.

On Sunday, Francis Maude, a Cabinet Office minister, said the party wants to "look at whether there should be a threshold in terms of turnout so that a ballot below a certain level should not give a valid legal mandate for strike action".

Achieving a valid diagnosis mandates a pathohistological examination of a complete sentinel node.

The court, she relayed, had upheld the Affordable Care Act by a 5 to 4 vote, ruling the individual mandate valid under Congress' taxing power.

Q The War Powers Resolution requires presidents to terminate deployments into hostilities that have not been authorized by Congress 60 days after notifying lawmakers that the campaign has begun; is that mandate constitutionally valid and legally binding on the commander in chief?

The much-reviled "individual mandate" was not valid as a regulation of commerce among the states, he concluded, but it was valid as an exercise of Congress's power "to lay and collect taxes".

Transparency International recently ranked Somalia the most corrupt country in the world, and one Western diplomat contended that there was "a feeding frenzy now" because it is unclear how much longer the transitional government's mandate will be valid.

He never said, "The mandate is a valid exercise of the commerce clause because…" He never said, "Congress can regulate health insurance because…" And he absolutely never said, "The PPACA is constitutional because…" It was implicit that he believed these things, but only because he works for the Obama Administration.

But in NFIB, Roberts in fact rejected the primary argument offered by supporters of the law -- and adopted by the Court's more progressive justices in what they viewed as a "[s]traightforward application" of the Court's precedents -- that the individual mandate was a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce.

The Republican argument on mandates was perfectly valid.