President Donald Trump has hardened the U.S. stance on illegal immigration, widening the mandate with more frequent raids and arrests, stoking fears of deportations.
The UK sponsored the security council resolution that increased the Amisom force and widened its mandate.
Then, by failing to use Obama's Army to drive the health care debate, he ceded ground to the Tea Party and had to limp across the finish line, a year later, with only a starting point for comprehensive health care reform — really, a widened coverage mandate by government.
Reluctance to widening the NATO mandate to include attacks on drug networks has come from Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, among other nations.
NATO officials in Brussels declined to list the nations that have opposed widening the alliance mandate to include attacks on drug networks, and no nation has volunteered that it has legal objections.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul significantly widened their mandates, calling for a crackdown on everything from the derivatives industry to executive compensation.
Although the UK knew what it was signing up to when it joined the EU, he maintained, nobody realised when we ratified the human rights convention that we were accepting the jurisdiction of a court with an "ever-widening mandate to determine what shall constitute human rights".
He also urged widening the European Central Bank's mandate to include promoting growth — a nonstarter for Germany — and favors common European bonds to finance investment in the sectors of energy, education and urban development.
The EU's distinguishing agenda is to "widen" the WTO mandate by developing new rules to cover more topics.
Given these worries it is surprising that Congress has now widened OPIC's mandate on equity ownership.
On Sunday, the president raised eyebrows in financial markets, and in Germany, by telling a rally in Paris that if he were re-elected, he would open a debate on widening the European Central Bank's legal mandate to let it promote growth through monetary stimulus.
