The mandates in this bill, mandates that candidate Obama opposed, equal diminished freedom.
The bill also mandates the implementation of a standardized training process for all CBP officers and Border Patrol agents.
It seems that any healthcare system that uses market forces needs at least some level of government coercion or mandates to work.
He experiments constantly, and he believes in understanding and exploring the reasons behind rules and mandates.
That almost licenses me, and mandates me to ask, what business am I in?
On the same day it claimed an absolute discretion by a decree that the mandates of the electors were not binding on its members.
She then produced her mandates, and the guards laid them at the feet of Ahubal.
These mandates exasperated the Moriscoes throughout Andalusia.
The army must be purely executive, carrying out the mandates of the State.
Of the mandates issued for the suppression of tournaments, many examples have come down to us.
"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.
A command or an expression of a desire, especially by a group of voters for a political program. Politicians elected in landslide victories often claim that their policies have received a mandate from the voters.