Mandate in a sentence as a noun

This group will have no P&L of its own, and no real authority to change or mandate change.

If Congress wants to allow more people to do skilled work they could mandate lower requirements.

They were elected with a mandate to destroy the Federal government, and by God, they almost pulled it off.

He also implies that while this memo is great progress, it falls short of a full open access mandate enabling reuse and text-mining of content.

They have too broad of a mandate -- they think they are responsible for controlling, er, protecting _all_ transportation, not just airline travel.

Google has a responsibility to its shareholders to make money, and I trust that they're trying to fulfill that mandate as well as possible.

Mandate in a sentence as a verb

Nobody is going to rewrite it in JQuery/JS/coffeescript => No money, no mandate, no manpower, no expertise, but primarily no need to do so.

The legislation does not mandate that the government insure the deposits, only that the deposit-insurance fund is correctly set up.

Again, the ES spec doesn't mandate this, but in practice it's widely implemented, and the spec does say that if you implement it its behavior needs to be the proper generalization of the other radices.

By passing state legislation that enables law enforcement to collect DNA from felony arrestees, at the same time as fingerprints, your state can catch criminals soonerThere you can see that 26 states now mandate collection on arrest.

Perhaps this does not apply in the Air Force but I suspect that it does:Senior leaders in big organizations like our military have an unfortunate unwritten mandate to /create/ things: policies, organizations, rules, procedures, etc.

Mandate definitions

noun

a document giving an official instruction or command

See also: authorization authorisation

noun

a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

See also: mandatory

noun

the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

verb

assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"

verb

make mandatory; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"

verb

assign authority to