A document giving an official instruction or command

Usage examples of mandate.

To all that only your mandate of accusation and allegorical sermons are lacking.

Many particular contracts had Hortator mandates written into the fine print, including clauses requiring the users to cooperate with embargoes and boycotts.

Ideally, a revised sanctions regime would be mandated by the Security Council itself because multilateral sanctions are always more effective than unilateral sanctions, and sanctions decreed by the United Nations tend to be the most effective of all.

When the fatal mandate was proclaimed, Gregory solicited the aid of some friendly merchants to convey him in a basket beyond the gates of Rome, and modestly concealed himself some days among the woods and mountains, till his retreat was discovered, as it is said, by a celestial light.

Find some evidence that puts her in touch with Stam, on Dutch soil, and you can have all the mandates you please.

The idea of trusteeship was not new even when it became incorporated in the mandate agreements at the end of the First World War, and informed discussions before the war had explored proposals and possibilities for colonial development.

I was already pushing welfare reform and tougher child-support enforcement, and had long supported the line-item veto and ending unfunded mandates.

These are the so-called unfunded mandates that the new Republican Congress opposed so vigorously in 1995.

From Cufa, from Bassora, from Egypt, from the tribes of the desert, they rose in arms, encamped about a league from Medina, and despatched a haughty mandate to their sovereign, requiring him to execute justice, or to descend from the throne.

But hubris engendered his one fatal misstep: his attempt to change the Russian diet, mandating Texas Bar-B-Q in place of such staples as borsht and potato pancakes.

Japanese thus created an exalted emperor figure on the Chinese model, they did not adopt the key Chinese Confucian theory of the emperor ruling through a mandate from heaven.

Office was mandated by a new law in 1981 to conduct independent inquiries into criminal cases around the state, to offer assistance to counties, and indeed to prosecute in some instances.

Kerwin issued a mandate that all military organizations of the Fenian Brotherhood should hold themselves in readiness to move forward to the Canadian frontier as soon as the final orders were issued.

Bozzarias, all mandated investigations into the death of my beloved Vomacht resulted in one uncontested conclusion: pump failure produced a kind of alien hyperglycemia that drove the Stroonians insane.

Socialist orator carries with it the party mandate that the workers of America should be organized industrially so as to be submissive to the command of a revolutionary leadership.