Sentence examples for written mandate from inspiring English sources

Yet Israel declined, citing the bias of the council and the fact that the written mandate was never officially altered.

Though it's not clear exactly when celibacy became mandatory for priests, the first written mandate for chastity dates back to 304 C.E., when Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira stated that all "bishops, presbyters, and deacons and all other clerics" should "abstain completely from their wives and not to have children".

He served until 1982, when the bylaws he had written mandated his retirement, at the age of 70.

In the context of PEN's "freedom to write" mandate, he hearkened back to the AIDS cry from the '80s: "Silence equals death". And surely free expression should not equal death, not now or ever.

Increasing margins would be an excellent start, and one of the arguments that the CFTC is waging among itself as part of their rule writing mandate from the Dodd-Frank bill.

As one analyst writes "mandating a way in which superdelegates have to vote doesn't really help Sanders much at all".

64 be implemented as written and mandated by a wide margin of California voters.

Congress could write the mandate into another spending measure, though lawmakers so far have not said they would do so.

If ministers cannot agree on coherent goals for the Brexit negotiations, parliament will have to write the mandate.

But Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, who wrote the mandate, said it still left a "safety loophole" because freight on cargo planes, which accounts for 85 percent of all air cargo, is not subject to the same screening.

As Mr. Dyer writes, the mandate for the FF is "to meld the performance of a Ferrari supercar with the four-season utility of an all-wheel-drive luxury wagon".