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Definition of mandate:

  • (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command
  • (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
  • (verb) assign authority to

Sentence Examples:

When he learned the reception they gave to his mandate, he affected the most painful astonishment.

I drew myself up with no little indignation at the imperative tone, but feeling at least equal awe at the stern calmness with which the mandate was spoken.

There are certain spheres in the hair geography of the body, over which particular glands may be said to rule or to possess a mandate.

It is a spiritual weapon, because it waits for no mandate from anybody except one's own conscience.

That the mandates and maxims of the Savior are far beyond the mutations and erring passions of mortality.

Of course the presumed arguments against the abandonment of mandates may not have been considered, but at the time I believed that they were potent with Colonel House and with the President.

Wilson's draft also contained a system of mandates over territories in a form which was, to say the least, rudimentary if not inadequate.

He obeyed the mandate, walking up to the platform, as was the custom, and addressing the chairman.

I am not bound to compliance with mandates, either positive or negative, which either religion condemns, or reason rejects.

Even Julius Solon himself, who framed this decree according to imperial mandate, was a little later murdered.

All but the Indians obeyed the mandate, and were strengthened and reconciled to prepare the remaining flesh to sustain them a few days longer on their journey.

Hawkins refused to obey the mandate, and soon after received notice to quit the farm he at that time rented.

The country is better off under any other mandate, provided it gives Americans the right to teach without ruling.

Little delay occurred, and not a word was uttered, but the short, authoritative mandates which Wilder saw fit to deliver from his own lips.

The exchange was instantly made; for no one, there, was ever known to dispute a mandate that was uttered with the air of authority he then wore.

Public questions were gravely debated and passed upon according to the old forms, while in reality all that was done was to give the stamp of constitutional procedure to the mandates of the Oligarchy.

His favorite texts became literal and imperative mandates; he came to feel that he bore the commission and enjoyed the protection of the Almighty.

It is not easy to describe the effect of such a mandate on people who, having nothing to reproach themselves with, could not be prepared for it.

Who, after this mandate, would venture to oppose a member recommended by the Commune of Paris?

Turning his horse around again toward the abbess he asked her whether she had received his mandate.

He had decided to quit, and one hundred days after he became emperor elect he issued a mandate canceling the monarchy and restoring the republic.

The politics of civilization faces a simple mandate: establish, stabilize and perpetuate a nucleus of wealth and authority; build around the nucleus a periphery of associates and dependencies.

It will evidently be some act or acts by which men will be required to acknowledge the authority of that image and yield obedience to its mandates.

Antigone declares her resolution to brave their mandate, and perform the last sad rites for her brother.

And we were punished when the Council of Vocations came to give us our life Mandates which tell those who reach their fifteenth year what their work is to be for the rest of their days.

The majority of Cavour's party did not believe that Garibaldi would give in to the national mandate; he knew him better.

And without waiting to note how he accepted the mandate, she swept by him and entered the Fort, the gates clashing behind her.

He looked pale and grave, as well he might, since he was about to stake his own position as well as convey a mandate of national reproach.

The demand of this part of the mind is always "increase and multiply," and according to the stage of growth of the individual is the mandate carried out, as we shall see presently.

This little excursion into biology is made in the full consciousness that social mandates are not to be found there.

For the first time since I left school, I was under orders; and the foreman certainly tried to obey dad's mandate and treat me just as he would have treated any other stranger.

No imaginary line will ever hold them back, no mandate of any monarch ever can restrain them.

I sat with my back against the wall of the house of Broken Plate, as I ate quickly at the mandate of my host, and soon I felt the need of this support.

Public opinion is definitely formed before the meeting of the legislature; and the latter has become simply a vehicle for realizing or betraying the mandates of popular opinion.

He saw clearly that the Chow dynasty could never be revived; and arrived at the conclusion that a dynasty was only sacred while it retained the "mandate of heaven."

The latter he shall do immediately, as the said memorandum shall indicate, without any investigation or mandate preceding.

The Superior, Father Robert, at once assembled his spiritual children, and informed them of the royal mandate.

"Your Majesty," he reported, "I have examined those under my command touching your mandate; all are good citizens and brave soldiers, but I am unable to find for you among them a single executioner!"

I ran over in my mind all the unpleasant mandates which it might contain, to try and prepare myself for a shock.

I am sure you have them, and they will forever cling round your heart till you obey their mandate.

They communicate the impressions from the outside to the brain and convey its conscious or unconscious (instinctive) mandate to the muscles of all organs.

She submitted to the mandate, conscious of her own inability to do otherwise; but there was a touch of reproach in her voice as she said, "I thought you would help me, Nick."

The principle on which he now conducted his life was to give his genius full play, to obey its every mandate, to allow no obstacle to come in the way of its fullest development.

He had thought when he agreed to take the office that he truly would be allowed to enforce federal mandates.

I only know that I kept my eye on that bull as religiously as one attempts to obey the golf mandate, "keep your eye on the ball."

Recall the effects the Mandate must have had on the pioneers; how we of the class would feel if we now received such an order.

It has a mandate, and a mighty one, to prosecute the war, and it is prosecuting the war to the satisfaction of the majority of the electorate.

In this work each and every detail, to the most minute, had been arranged and fixed, and from that time judicial combats had been regulated in accordance with its mandates.

Still, thereafter she had avoided Morgan's; partly out of fear and partly because of her father's mandate.

Ye should have seen his face when that mandate was brought forth and duly signed and sealed with the royal seal and delivered to our father!

The muscles, bones, ligaments, feet, hands and nerves, etc., are agents for carrying out the mandates of the mind.

The liver is imagined by Plato to be a smooth and bright substance, having a store of sweetness and also of bitterness, which reason freely uses in the execution of her mandates.

The mandate was issued on the fourth of July, and was served on the Judge on the sixteenth.

Probably similar entries will be found in other registers of the same date, as the collections appear to have been made by special mandate, and paid into the hands of the proper authorities.

In obedience to this mandate we were forced off the ground towards our tent, and when we reached it we did not have to wait long for news.

We cannot appeal to the courts, for if their decisions be not respected, they employ force to compel obedience to their mandates.

Our differences will be settled by an international court with the power to enforce its mandates.

The character of the mandate must differ according to the stage of the development of the people, the geographical situation of the territory, its economic conditions and other similar circumstances.

For he remembered the story of the witch burned by his grand sire's mandate, and he felt he was not mistaken in the interpretation he had put upon the old woman's words.

The poet, on this mandate, began reading his composition aloud, but he had not finished the second stanza when he was interrupted.

We shall see that his followers actually preferred his mandate to the testimony of their own senses.

He could say this because the new electorate which his mandate had created had assembled a constitutional convention and had abolished slavery.

Jameson had decreed that he should ride in it, however, and there was no evading her mandate.

He had received no special instructions; a member of the royal household bore him the official mandate and a purse fat enough to soothe his wife's feelings.

Consequently, there was no difficulty in receiving his mandates and enforcing them, so that the province was greatly reformed.

He commenced to burden the province with mandates, for in his term there was too much of that.

To effect this object, every man in the ship exerted his powers to the utmost, under the guidance of the steady but rapid mandates of their commander.

"Put that limb of a Morrison girl out of the house," came an unexpected mandate from amongst the screens.

Justice cannot conflict with itself and can do nothing unjust in carrying out its own mandates.

Sentiment is higher than law, and the endeavor of all honest legislation should be to make laws expressive of the mandates of the highest and best sentiment.

No plan of the institution, no scrap of paper which might assist in the interpretation of the mandate, was ever discovered.

Apparently, fate had decreed that he should be the messenger charged with this sad errand, and, with a singular disregard of consequences, he accepted the mandate.

The first little finger that would have dared to say "no" to his mandates, would have fared severely for its presumption.

It was a specific mandate to establish the prosperity of the people on the basis of firm peace at home, and to redeem the national credit by the satisfaction of all just claims abroad.

It was not even necessary for those mighty chiefs to say that their mandates had the sanction of any higher authority.

At last, on the 10th February, a royal mandate came forth, declaring the University to be suspended for the entire year.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

She had come to have almost a childish dread of the girl's temper, yet she knew well that her husband's mandate must be obeyed.

When I consider what strong, what irresistible reasons we have to urge, I can hardly think it possible that the mandate of the most powerful administration can prevail against them.

According to our laws, as you are aware, this is a circumstance which, notwithstanding the purely voluntary character of my mandate, I am bound to enter in my report.

One might object to Aunt Caroline's methods and rebel against her mandates, and yet not be blind to the exquisite perfection of her appearance and belongings.

There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition or a dissolution of the Union.

Time and enlightenment may modify or alter the mandates of war, but in this age of civilization and knowledge, neither nations nor peoples move backward.

Human suffering did not end with the life of Burns; neither was the solemn mandate, "Love one another, bear one another's burdens," given to the rich only, but to all men.

Sir, equality before the law is now the broad, universal, glorious rule and mandate of the Republic.

Our counsel is that you obey our mandate, and the earlier you do so the better it will be for you.

The selection of candidates for office was still made by those who had no mandate to act for the party except in a legislative capacity.

The same night a party of the royal guard took charge of Hooper, the order of whose execution was arranged by a mandate from the crown.

The members of the council are appointed by the king; he chooses them for their wisdom and integrity, without being limited to rank: the person appointed cannot refuse obedience to the royal mandate.

If a county or a city voted "dry," practically all the whites aided to see the mandate enforced.

On the contrary, she issued a mandate requiring all books to be delivered up to her officers, and threatening death against any who should keep back or hide even a single leaf.

This strange mandate made the whole thing seem more unreal, and he would not have been surprised to be told next to stand on his head.

No one could question that he had a mandate from the people, and during his second term he was still more aggressive.

Justice however to yourselves and humanity toward your fellow mortals, loudly demand it of you, and you ought not to hesitate in obeying their sacred mandates.

They were, however, soon recalled, and a royal mandate was issued enforcing silence on both parties.

They therefore, with many expressions of loyalty and concern, excused themselves from complying with the King's mandate.

Its mandates must be obeyed, and that instantly; they may not be opposed, no, not even questioned.

And thus it is, that we hear men, in their places in the national legislature, boasting of their allegiance to its interests and mandates, instead of referring their duties to the country.

This mandate she was required to obey immediately, under penalty, in case of disobedience, of being held guilty of treason.

Officers were immediately dispatched in all directions to search for the queen, in order to serve this mandate upon her, but she was nowhere to be found.