Mandate

//ˈmændeɪt//

"Mandate" in a Sentence (24 examples)

Until 1962, Algeria was a French mandate.

The church does not have the mandate to change the world. But if it fulfills its mission, it will change the world.

You are entitled to hold your beliefs, but you are not entitled to mandate those beliefs for others.

In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed a mandate ordering a survey of nation's coast.

So now to winged Love this mandate she addressed: / "O son, sole source of all my strength and power, / who durst high Jove's Typhoean bolts disdain, / to thee I fly, thy deity implore."

Company regulations mandate that workers use protective eyewear.

Company regulations mandate that workers wear safety glasses.

For running for a fifth mandate, Bouteflika damaged his own credibility.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika's first mandate was between 1999 and 2004.

"The revisions finalized with this rule-making fit squarely within the president’s mandate of easing the regulatory burden on the American public without sacrificing our species' protection and recovery goals," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said last week.

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Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.

Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.

John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.

A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.

Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.

Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.

As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.

The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.

After I have mandated my exercices.

He [sc. Archbishop Secker] then proceeds to express his disapprobation of what is called Mandating of Sermons, or repeating them from memory. This custom prevails much among foreign Divines, and throughout the whole Church of Scotland.

He rose and walked his study, ‘mandating’ his opening sentences with appropriate gestures.

I had only from that evening at six till Sabbath to mandate my two discourses.

Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him. Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!

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