Crossword clues for mandate
mandate
- Authority of bishop, perhaps, over see
- Order what you need to make friend?
- Written authority
- What gives couple authority?
- Delegate authority to fellow going to appointment
- Court order
- Formal order
- Official order
- Authoritative command
- Two guys out to dinner, say
- Order from the people
- Legal authorisation
- Landslide winner's claim
- Landslide victory claim
- Election directive
- Area administered under trusteeship
- Absolutely require
- Require by law
- Authorization
- Authoritative order
- Order from on high
- What a landslide political victory confers
- Obamacare obligation
- A document giving an official instruction or command
- A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power
- (politics) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
- Injunction
- Behest
- Court command
- Clear instruction
- Clear authorization
- Written order
- Give approval to chap to go out with someone
- Girl, not quite eight, reportedly in charge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandate \Man"date\, n. [L. mandatum, fr. mandare to commit to one's charge, order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus hand + dare to give: cf. F. mandat. See Manual, Date a time, and cf. Commend, Maundy Thursday.]
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An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.
--Dryden. Hence: (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform.
Hence: Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine.
(Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.
(Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
--Erskine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"judicial or legal order," c.1500, from Middle French mandat (15c.) and directly from Latin mandatum "commission, command, order," noun use of neuter past participle of mandare "to order, commit to one's charge," literally "to give into one's hand," probably from manus "hand" (see manual) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Political sense of "approval supposedly conferred by voters to the policies or slogans advocated by winners of an election" is from 1796. League of Nations sense is from 1919.
1620s, "to command," from mandate (n.). Meaning "to delegate authority, permit to act on behalf of a group" is from 1958; used earlier in the context of the League of Nations, "to authorize a power to control a certain territory for some specified purpose" (1919). Related: Mandated; mandating.
Wiktionary
n. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. vb. 1 to authorize 2 to make mandatory
WordNet
n. a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: authorization, authorisation]
a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves [syn: mandatory]
the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
v. assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
make mandatory; "the new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests"
assign authority to
Wikipedia
Mandate may refer to:
- Mandate (criminal law), an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction
- Mandate (international law), an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body
- Mandate (magazine), a monthly gay pornographic magazine
- Mandate (politics), the power granted by an electorate
- Mandate (theology), to some Christians, an order from God
- Mandate (trade union), a trade union in Ireland
-
, various ships of Britain's navy
- Mandate (typeface), a brash-brush typeface designed by R. Hunter Middleton
- The formal notice of decision from an appeals court
- A requirement for a Health maintenance organization to provide a particular product
In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.
The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said to not have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.
Elections, especially ones with a large margin of victory, are often said to give the newly elected government or elected official an implicit mandate to put into effect certain policies. When a government seeks re-election they may introduce new policies as part of the campaign and are hoping for approval from the voters, and say they are seeking a "new mandate".
In some languages, a 'mandate' can mean a parliamentary seat won in an election rather than the electoral victory itself. In case such a mandate is bound to the wishes of the electorate, it is an imperative mandate, otherwise it is called "free".
In international law, a mandate is a binding obligation issued from an inter-governmental organization (e.g. the United Nations) to a country which is bound to follow the instructions of the organization.
Before the creation of the United Nations, all mandates were issued from the League of Nations. An example of such a mandate would be Australian New Guinea, which is officially the Territory of Papua.
Category:International law Category:Law of obligations
In Christian theology, a mandate is an order given from God that must be obeyed without question. For example, the mandate given to Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God. (Genesis 22:1)
Mandate is a trade union representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in Ireland.
The union was founded in 1994, when the Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union merged with the Irish National Union of Vintners', Grocers' and Allied Trades Assistants. The merger was criticised by some members because the word "union" was not contained in the title. Later, the union was renamed "Mandate Trade Union".
On formation, the union had 22,000 members, and this grew to 40,000 by 2005. Due to the turnover of staff in retail, at the time, it was recruiting around 16,000 members per year in order to maintain this level of total membership.
A new logo was designed in 2009.
A criminal court may impose a "mandate" as part of a legal process on a person accused of a crime consisting of an obligation to engage in certain conditions or activities in exchange for suspension or reduction in penalty; such as, conditions of probation, conditional discharges, or other conditional sentences. For example, a defendant convicted of driving while intoxicated or drug possession may be mandated to engage in alcoholism or substance abuse rehabilitation. The term is paradoxical because acceptance of the "mandate" is a voluntary act by the defendant, who also has the option of serving what would most generally (though the relative weight is a matter determined by the individual's perspective and readiness to change) be viewed as a harsher alternative, such as incarceration. In this sense, the mandate is not truly mandatory, but is instead a type of legal fiction wherein the court assumes an illusion of power which, in actuality, is constrained by the defendant's free will.
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.