In September 2011 the Assam State Commission for Women, which has a wide-ranging mandate to improve women's welfare, presented draft legislation to criminalise witch-hunting to the state's chief minister.
New York City's Republican Mayor John Lindsay and Oklahoma Democratic Sen. Fred Harris pushed the commission to assume a wide-ranging mandate "to take on the broad problems that lie behind the riots". Lindsay urged the other commissioners to see the riots as the product of poverty and hopelessness in urban areas — poverty that was, in many cases, created by racism and enforced by discrimination.
It had a wide-ranging mandate to examine all aspects of the electoral process and recommend reforms.
This should be implemented to ensure that GEU addresses its wide-ranging mandate of co-coordinating both governmental and non-governmental activities across the nation in the area of girls' education.
Catherine Stihler MEP has stressed her support for a wide-ranging mandate for EU negotiators pursuing a trade and investment agreement with the US.
Maris, who studied neuroscience at Middlebury College, has seemed to be intrigued by advances in life sciences in recent years, but one could imagine any new fund would have as wide-ranging a mandate as GV.
The plan, currently under review, mandates a potentially wide-ranging shift of vehicles and fuels between 1998 and 2003.
Every day, you can find progressive screeds about how the president is "just like Bush" because of trespasses as wide-ranging as Afghanistan to the individual mandate.
The commission's mandate is to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the causes of the attacks, whether they could have been averted and what changes are needed to prevent a similar occurrence.
WITH this broad mandate and little precedent for such a wide-ranging loan program, the airlines, their suppliers and their lenders are waiting eagerly to see what the board does.
That resolve has won him the biggest personal mandate in the UK, a job with wide-ranging powers over London and with enormous emotional significance for him.
