Sample Sentences for
mandate
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mandate as in:  a mandate requiring

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    The law mandates that an appeal be filed for all convicts on death row.
    mandates = demands
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    Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.  (source)
    mandate = instruction that must be followed
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    The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.  (source)
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    Indeed, such an excursion would be beyond the reach of our mandate, I'd think.†  (source)
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    We were in the system now, with social worker visits and mandated family counseling.  (source)
    mandated = gave an order requiring
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    ...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.  (source)
    Mandates = instructions that must be followed
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    They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases.†  (source)
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    We have a mandate, a mandate from Heaven, to protect the world, to hold back the demons.†  (source)
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    It's a routine mandated by Desi, my posh jailer, my spoiled courtier.  (source)
    mandated = ordered (an instruction that must be followed)
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    It wasn't just my peers who applauded this trait; the prison system mandates stoicism and tries to crush any genuine emotion, but everyone, jailers and prisoners alike, is still crossing boundaries left and right.†  (source)
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    She had a judge pulled out of chambers, and we had our court order mandating the release of Jenks's manuscript Always a Bridesmaid.†  (source)
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    Trevor Nickel instituted the championship matches in 1946, soon after he came on as the director of the Florida Industrial School for Boys with a mandate for reform.†  (source)
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    Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan's divinely mandated right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior.  (source)
    mandated = commanded
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mandate as in:  an electoral mandate

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Having been elected by overwhelming majority, she claimed a mandate from the American people.
mandate = political power given to someone to do something
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The mayor is hoping for a fresh mandate from the people in the forthcoming elections.
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