Sentence examples for won a mandate from inspiring English sources

Unlike Putin, he won a mandate through fair elections.

He's won a mandate, they will say, and that means he doesn't need to compromise.

Indeed, experts say he governed as though he had won a mandate from the state's nine million residents.

On May 11th the victorious prime minister told his MPs (to loud cheers and fist-banging on tables) that he had won a mandate for a "tough" renegotiation.

To say that the Tea Party won a mandate is to imply that the public registered approval for its specific remedies for changing government as well.

When Mr Sarkozy tried to restart the reforms that Mr Chirac largely abandoned, he had one big advantage: that he had won a mandate by campaigning for change.

He seems to be planning on winning a mandate for entropy.

Mary Pimm London  The Conservatives did not win a mandate at the general election.

Mr Tsipras might need a referendum or another election to win a mandate to backtrack even if he wanted to.

He therefore poses the greatest danger to the acting president's chances of winning a mandate on the first round.

With none winning a mandate, negotiations that could take months are under way to cobble together a majority of Iraq's 325 seats in Parliament.