mandate (exact matches only)

"It's another unfunded mandate," he said.

Government officials, by contrast, have a very different constitutionally mandated obligation: to devise public policies based not on religious interests but on a secular concept of public good.

According to the Barnes's board, deviating from this mandate is the only way to ensure the collection's survival.

And looming over the entire drama is the political showmanship mandated by the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Instead of citing the most relevant constitutional provision—the clause requiring "a republican form of government" in each state—the Court pretended against all evidence that the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause had been designed to mandate precise equality in election-district populations.

That mandate destroyed what was left of the traditional districting standards.

The current Majlis mandate ends in June, the paper reports.

As far as Gilmore is concerned, and many share his view, Sundance is more than living up to its mandate, albeit with necessary adjustments made for a changing world.

Toronto festival chief Piers Handling is heading to Sundance, and he sympathizes with Gilmore's job of trying to live up to a mandate that seems more elusive with each passing year.

That group contends the commission paid little heed to the mandate to create competitive districts when possible.

The cumulative effect of the new mandate to put slavery "at the center of the story of early America" is likely to be devastating.

And a mandated expansion of production of corn-based ethanol fuel is tailored to the Great Plains and upper Midwestern farm states that Bush won in 2000.

Critics of the federal law have long complained about what they say are unfunded mandates, but Ohio is among the first to complete an analysis of the cost.

Jack Evans talked about putting all the candidates on the ballot whether they liked it or not, but the council just didn't go there, and if I recall correctly, there was an issue over whether the council had the authority to mandate how the Democratic Party conducted its primary.

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