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How this mandate was disregarded and how the convention was formed, and proceeded to create a new government with a new Constitution, and how it achieved its mighty work, will be the subject of the next lecture.
It seemed obvious from the very first that the Powers, which under the old practice would have obtained sovereignty over certain conquered territories, would not be denied mandates over those territories.
No one dared disobey his mandates, for the law of clerical obedience was one of the fundamental ideas of the age.
"Our mandate has now expired..."
We sit there on thrones of thrones, and despatch thence mandates through the whole world and beyond it.
There's a very strong party yelling for an American mandate.
If it is not time for that yet, then we would choose an American mandate.
A few enthusiasts astonishingly still labored for an American mandate.
This mandate was not by any means premature; for it became absolutely necessary, to quell the increasing tumults.
The clergy, stimulated by a Papal mandate, had all now turned against the invader.
I was very sorry mamma did not permit me to join a very small party at their house last week; the Countess came herself to beg, but mamma's mandate had gone forth long ago, and therefore I submitted I hope with a good grace, but I doubt it.
It put a summary stop to the enlistment of Indians and threatened with arrest anyone who should disobey its mandate.
The count was like all other counts, incessantly in debt; so, when Hoffman was ordered to attend on the Grand Master, he did not doubt that the mandate originated in the ordinary necessity, and he prepared himself accordingly to evade or concede.
He speaks, and his mandate is obeyed; he wishes, and his wish is gratified!
Lincoln understood this perfectly, and whatever his opinion about the ultimate fate of slavery if prohibited expansion, he from the first took the ground that the terms of his election constituted a mandate limiting his action.
That tyrannical mandate is scattering multitudes of Natives from their homes.
The collapse of the Sultan's power had been so complete, so notorious, that few persons believed he would ever dare to disregard the mandate of the Great Powers and his own solemn promises stated above.
According to law no Englishman could be arrested or detained in confinement merely by the mandate of the sovereign.
They obeyed the mandates of apostolic vicars when they should have considered military necessities.
Here is a despotic mandate "to aid and assist in the prompt and efficient execution of this law."
To disobey the mandate of a chief is at times to court instant death at his hands.
The ship stopped at the mandate of the captain, and the barge was lowered, and brought to the gangway.
Mary and Judith, with bland, impassive expressions, noted the effect of the mandate.
Most skillful in affairs, beneficent in his mandates, both in his going out and in his coming in he made Egypt flourish.
The mandate nettled Pepper, who evidently felt more deeply over this situation than had appeared on the surface.
No thought of thwarting his father's mandate crossed his mind; he was bound by the decree of the dead.
Cornelia meekly acquiesced in this royal mandate.
And Ishmael, filled with joy, would fly to obey the royal mandate; and soon seated at the beauty's feet, in the glow of the warm wood fire and in the glory of her heavenly presence, he would lose himself in a delicious dream of love and music.
Proud as he was moody, he condescended to no personal mandate.
I might add that the mandate from the Congress was given by an almost unanimous bipartisan vote.
Was her mandate, and Sophia, to please her, plucked the white petals one by one, so that they might be scattered.
"Get up this moment: you will soil your clean frock," is the mandate issued to some urchin creeping about on the floor.
What should he do but raise two regiments on his own mandate, a usurpation of the sovereign rights.
Who gives us a mandate to sweep them away for the sake of the unborn?
When he meets an unusual word like mandatory, he must not be content to guess at its significance by linking it with command and mandate, for as used in international affairs it means something quite definite.
Her cheeks tingled frightfully, but she felt that she was obeying a mandate of love.
She waved her tawny hand with the air of a princess dismissing her courtiers, and her mandate was obeyed.
The remembrance is sweet, and has no angry thorn, no peremptory mandate.
And if even they bury delicacy at the mandate of stern Want, they are so apt to be refused assistance by the heartless, that they imagine all of our people alike, and fearing further refusal, shrink with natural horror from a second rejection.
Who dared to conquer the iron will of the Bourbon mandate?
The victors secured their victory and perpetuated their power by extending their mandate from three years to seven.
Some of you, having only received limited powers from your constituencies, appear to think that you would not be justified in exceeding your mandates, while others have been authorized to act as circumstances may seem to require.
These he now vainly endeavored to recall while he delayed a final reply to Brock's mandate.
The fellows of the college made submissive applications to the king for recalling his mandate; but before they received an answer, the day came on which, by their statutes, they were obliged to proceed to an election.
Climate governs male and female alike and shapes their habits to its own tyrannical mandates.
Under any less authoritative mandate than that which is conveyed in a military order with the requisite force behind it, the Southern communities would never have accepted or submitted to the conditions thus imposed.
There were no regularly established courts in the city to try criminals, no written code of laws to dictate methods of procedure, no court officials to enforce mandates, and no safe jails in which to confine prisoners.
Irate, he had issued a mandate that produced the effect Terry had asked.
Dante, in his fierce resentment, urged the Emperor to besiege the city which resisted his imperial mandates.
Yet in this wild place alarms and even rebellion had found their way; the emperor had but one subject, and this Caliban had ventured, in direct violation of an imperial mandate, to kill a fowl for his dinner.
I am handicapped by scruples having no warrant in legal code, but more autocratic than mandate of Kaiser or Czar.
Aught else than servile obedience in accomplishing the mandates of those in power?
In a stiff military attitude he gave raucous mandate from his throat.
Exclaimed the girl, as she obeyed the mandate.
At this distant tinkle Chum evidently grasped the meaning of his master's earlier mandate.
Although this mandate was obeyed, and for a time silence reigned, it was not long before they were all singing a gay song, started by Clem himself, even Quimby joining in the chorus with a feeble tenor.
The consequence was that there was not a quorum left, and that no formal reply could be made to the royal mandate.
He had heard from his tool Cartwright that they were disposed to obey the royal mandate, but that they wished for some little modifications in form, and that they meant to present a humble request to that effect.
By a false doctrine she had been taught that the deepest impulses of her heart and soul were to be set aside before the mandates of convention and society; that she must act a part rather than be herself.
The following mandate from the University authorizing her prosecution will show what the charge was; and the reader will note that one of its darkest items is the costume, which for so many good and sufficient reasons she wore.
If she had it to do over again, she would, of course; the sentences she'd carried out were legally mandated, and she'd carried them out, as required, when she'd satisfied herself she'd gotten all a subject's useful information.
As they are elected to-day, and with a special mandate, it is natural that they should consider themselves more legitimate than a municipal council elected four or five months before them, and with a very uncertain mandate.
Like a good child, though choking with tears, she obeyed the first mandate; and presently was rather comforted by his listening at the foot of the stairs, and reporting that the boy seemed to be quiet at last.
The Sultan approved of her scheme, and ordered several mandates to be written and signed relative to the motions of his army the next day, which were quite contrary to the real disposition he intended to give out.
Then came the decided mandate: "Heave-to and send a boat."
The moment has now come for the voice of Omnipotence to give the mandate.
What affliction, too, befell the Carmelite nuns when they heard of the fatal mandate.
That mandate was pressing and threatening, and it terrified Madame de Longueville.
It has a shrewd suspicion that the imperative mandate is never more than a snare and a delusion.
There was no gainsaying the mandate of one so great.
As the mandate was originally imperative, the giver of the mandate claimed the right of seeing to its execution.
Naturally this judgment did not prove a deterrent; on the contrary, it amounted to a mandate.
The brain in turn has sent out its mandate through the appropriate motor nerve cells to all the muscle and other cells surrounding the injured cell, commanding them to remove it from the point of danger.
That emissary whom she had sent out was now, as she well knew, fulfilling her mandate but too zealously.
The chief of each convent was a despot to whose mandates it was not possible to offer the least resistance.
Anti-utilitarian justice never tries to look half-a-dozen different ways at once, never points at the same time in opposite directions, never issues contradictory mandates, never halts between two opinions.
On this particular night his mandate had gone forth, and, in his own bar, he was an absolute autocrat.
The mandate he had spoken was the knell of hope to him.
By royal mandate the delinquent was suspended from his office of Chief Justice.
A centurion with a private mandate appears, and forthwith the victim opens his veins and dies in a warm bath.
Retinues of retainers rendered obeisance and executed the mandates of their lords.
"This is no ordinary coldness," she said, with a nurse's quick perception; for many years had passed since, obeying her husband's mandate, she had found occupation for herself, and food for her children, at the bedside of the sick and dying.
The Grand Cyclops of this "den" was virtually the ruler of the order, but as he had no method of communicating with subjects or subordinates, and no way in which to enforce his mandates, his authority was more fancy than fact.
Nobody dared infringe the revolutionary mandate.
As though the mere sound of his tremulous words conveyed an irresistible mandate, the whole group came shuffling nearer.
There is no disobeying the mandate, for it is founded on one of nature's unchangeable laws.
Were his couriers carrying a similar mandate to the west coast?
Such Court shall also decide whether any deputy has forfeited his mandate.
"Perhaps a new mandate from the papal defender?"
The bridge at the Spider fortunately was beyond his mandate; it was finished to a rivet as Hailey had planned it.
When we are dealing with self-governing colonies, there can be no question of imposing it as a mandate from above: to be effective and permanent it must come from within, a proposal based on a national conviction.
For though popular representation is in theory a representation for all things, yet a matter so vital in its application and so far-reaching in its issues deserves to be made the subject of a special mandate.
You, and each of you should feel the force of the imperious mandate.
Exclaimed the monarch as he quitted the scene of betrayed hospitality, and guards entered to obey the royal mandate.
It was as if they had been brought face to face by the mandates of an inexorable destiny.
The bugle's mandate, "Cease firing!"
His council was a centralized autocracy, issuing mandates like a general to an army.
Without his license and especial mandate.
The latter has thus the opportunity, if desired, to apply for an interim injunction, and, should he not do so within eight days from the date upon which the transfer or mandate was lodged, the restraint flies off.