mandate
Example Sentences
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Backed by a UN mandate, it will have the tough job of ensuring the demilitarisation of Gaza.
From BBC
With regard to the Fed’s dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability, the vice chair said his baseline is for the unemployment rate to hold steady throughout this year.
"I want to serve my country where I am more useful. I got a mandate, and I have that mandate," Machado added.
From BBC
"We are going to elections," President Rumen Radev said on Friday after a third party declined a mandate to form a new government.
From Barron's
Though state officials say these will remain unchanged, there is no legal mandate to follow these procedures.
From Los Angeles Times
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