I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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After the 1987 election Mrs Thatcher can claim to have a very clear mandate .
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But in four previous attempts, Peres was unable to win a clear electoral mandate himself.
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On none of these issues does he seem to have received a clear mandate from the electorate.
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Others argue that any new government must have a clear mandate for change.
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Sometimes, court action is the only alternative if agreement or a clear statutory mandate are the only bases of partnership-based intervention.
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Each division will have clear mandates in its domestic markets, and a logically defined export area.
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The election result is a clear mandate for the Government to proceed with the reforms of the National Health Service and education.
federal
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Give states more flexibility to use their own funds for the poor without regard to federal mandates contained in the new law.
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Dole now plays down the legislation because of criticism that it has amounted to an unfunded federal mandate .
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Dole campaigns vigorously against federal mandates that require states to provide stipulated social benefits or meet a variety of federal guidelines.
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This is a federal mandate , but we are a small town where people help each other.
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The center also helped school personnel to cope with state and federal mandates relative to identifying and teaching the special learner.
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Money spent complying with the federal mandates could have gone to repair the water system, Vargas said.
new
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If a change of bank is involved then a new mandate must be set up with the Institute and the bank.
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This was high statesmanship, since each planned to use a new mandate to enact politically courageous and unpopular things.
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While he has railed against new government mandates , Dole supported a mandate requiring more use of ethanol.
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The fiscal rub arises because of new mandates that the hours a welfare recipient works gradually increase to 30 per week.
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It reflects the contested and dubious nature of the new president's mandate .
popular
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Even without it the Unionists had a popular mandate such as no Westminster government has enjoyed.
■ VERB
claim
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The Prime Minister will brandish his meaningless majority after the Division tonight and claim it as a mandate for Maastricht.
give
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The courts have not been given a mandate to spell out collective responsibilities, and even less to police them.
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No other professional in the school, save the principal, is given such a sweeping mandate to carry out.
limit
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He was put in office last year with a limited mandate and had promised to resign by the end of 1995.
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Dictatorship will especially emphasize the absence of a limited mandate for the political leaders.
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One critical element of authoritarianism, shared with a dictatorship, is the absence of a limited mandate .
seek
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He said Labour was seeking a mandate for the action needed to pull Britain out of recession.
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President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro rejected his resignation and told him to go to parliament to seek another mandate .
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Heseltine, in contrast, would have been obliged to seek his own mandate as soon as the Gulf war ended.
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Moreover, the Labour Party does not seek a mandate for its policies from the Northern Ireland electorate.
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I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do.
win
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The first, a deep and strong desire, was that he should win his own mandate from the people.
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But in four previous attempts, Peres was unable to win a clear electoral mandate himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lebanon became a French mandate after World War I.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is this secondary mandate which ensures that our bi-cameral system can properly function.
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On closer inspection, however, that mandate appears to be distinctly fragile.
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Preval has no mandate and he knows it.
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The result was seen as crucial in that it provided Sandiford with a personal mandate to govern.
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The White House initiative functioned in this way not as a mandate but as a disincentive.
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While he has railed against new government mandates, Dole supported a mandate requiring more use of ethanol.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The state mandates that high school students take three years of English.
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The topic being debated was whether a doctor is mandated to stop life-sustaining treatment at the patient's request.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He argued that what really mattered in science teaching could never be mandated and could only be acquired by experience of teaching.
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If enacted, the new law would force them to charge three strikes in all cases mandated by the legislation.
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It also mandated that no child could be hit without parental consent.
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It was the state that mandated the date for the charter election.
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State of the Union speeches are mandated by the Constitution.