"mandate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The city councils have proved powerless in the face of Saudi Arabia's ingrained governmental bureaucracy and a decidedly vague mandate.
- Foreigners are not yet allowed to own stakes in Internet content providers or Internet service providers here, constraints that AOL and Legend reflected in outlining their venture's vague mandate.
- Once the money was in hand, eight years of Congressional haggling ensued over how to interpret Smithson's rather vague mandate "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge."
- Mr. Cater, who was given a vague mandate to "think ahead" and had been told by other Presidential assistants that they "made it up" as they went along, took a while to find his niche.
- With that vague mandate, the current chairman, Reed Hundt, is mounting a last, desperate effort to overcome the industry's market mania and to require every station to carry a few uplifting children's shows each week.
- The initial contract gave Mr. Greene a vague mandate "to provide advice, review plans and make recommendations regarding participation by women, minorities and local businesses and individuals," according to the board's minutes.
- Congress's vague legal mandates are handed off to the states or the agencies or the courts to sort out.
- The mission's vague mandate, created under Chapter VI of the UN Charter was unclear about the right to use force, particularly in defence of civilians.
- There is only a vague mandate to draw up, sometime or other, an agreement on mutual judicial assistance.
- That left his standing fragile from Inauguration Day, guaranteeing that each fight would require a balancing act as he sought to reconstitute a vague mandate for change.
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