mandate
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The UN mission, which has a mandate to monitor civilian casualties only in Afghanistan, said its report was based on checks with three independent sources.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
“A tax mix switch involving an increase in the rate and or broadening of the base of GST would need an explicit electoral mandate to be doable,” Eslake added.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
"I'm not worried, I'm excited... We are serving the country. We are serving the people. We are not here to rule. We are here to serve. We are here to fulfil a mandate."
From BBC • May 8, 2026
The rest — balance-sheet discipline, less forward guidance, a narrower mandate — pulls in the other direction.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing mandate
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