Word Finder - mandates

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An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

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A papal rescript.

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A period during which a government is in power.

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To authorize

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To make mandatory

Their main role is as a signatory for bank mandates, lease and mortgage paperwork.

These mandates were converted in 1946 to UN trusteeships.

Mandates - perhaps suggested by the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (see Didache), which Hermas knows - and Similitudes i.-viii., while Simil.

The 2007 Energy Law mandates that by 2012 retailers complete the phase-out of the incandescent 100-watt bulb.

One of the most recent laws passed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission mandates sturdier cribs and bans the drop-down side.

Federal law mandates that if you're 70 1/2 or older, you must take a required minimum distribution from your individual retirement account (IRA).

Federal legislation mandates that this testing is free of charge within the public school system.

In addition, it's very off-putting to believe you must sacrifice such luxuries and necessities to appease the mandates of feng shui.

Declutter and get organized are two important mandates of feng shui principles.

The federal law mandates that the FDIC make payments on the insured deposits as soon as possible to depositors.

In addition, call a few advertised hair salons and ask the receptionist whether the salon promotes or mandates ongoing education courses and a training program for their stylists.

According to FDA mandates, air purifiers must produce less than 40 parts per billion of ozone when the levels are measured two inches away from the unit.

You'll also need to check your state's Health Department for licensing requirements, approved educational facilities and minimum hour mandates.

Every state within the United States mandates that all drivers must purchase auto liability insurance.

Sir Thomas Beaufort, afterwards earl of Dorset and duke of Exeter (appointed admiral of the fleet 1407, and admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine 1412, which latter office he held till his death in 1426), certainly had a court, with a marshal and other officers, and forms of legal process - mandates, warrants, citations, compulsories, proxies, &c. Complaints of encroachment of jurisdiction by the Admiralty Courts led to the restraining acts, 13 Ric. II.

First of all write thou my mandates and similitudes; and the rest, as I will show thee, so shalt thou write."

There was a danger of admitting Gentile converts to the church on too easy moral terms; hence the need of such insistence on the ideal as in The Two Ways and the Mandates.

The second phase in Leo's policy could only be accomplished with the aid of the Jesuits, or rather, it required the submission of the ecclesiastical hierarchy to the mandates of the Society of Jesus.

During this period the king's mandates were addressed to the bailiffs or to the mayor and bailiffs, and no charter of incorporation appears to have been granted until the reign of James II.

The deputies maintained that in the late reign several royal mandates had been withdrawn, and that no degree had ever been conferred without the oaths having been previously taken.

On the same day it claimed an absolute discretion by a decree that the mandates of the electors were not binding on its members.

The Roman Catholic gentry and lawyers, headed by Sir Patrick Barnewall, succeeded in proving the flagrant illegality of these mandates, and the government had to yield.

The conflict between him and the Assembly immediately broke out, and became acute over the verification of the mandates; the third estate desiring this to be made in common by the deputies of the three orders, which would involve voting by head, the suppression of classes and the preponderance of the third estate.

Territorial mandates were now tried, which inspired no greater confidence, but served to liquidate two-thirds of the debt, the remaining third being consolidated by its dependence on the Grand Livre (September 30, 1797).

Apart from our travel budgets, we have no budgets of our own to fulfill the mandates we were elected on.

Parity mandates the distribution to both Texas and Virginia.

For years union delegations at the conference have ignored their mandates.

The swirling hype, promises of opportunity and mandates for change have created a Maelstrom of uncertainty.

These mandates were converted in 1946 to UN Trusteeships.

The best way to get the paperwork you need is to visit your county courthouse; this way, you can make sure about your state's mandates for legal separation and acquire the correct paperwork.

The new bill issued in December 2007, includes a number of clean energy mandates.

Thanks to the dissemination of energy conservation facts and federal mandates, modern refrigerators now use moderate amounts of energy.

The mandates of the 58 Communist deputies were annulled, and eight arrested as privy to the attempt on the Regent.

The first sejm to legislate for the whole of Poland was the diet of Piotrkow (1493), summoned by John Albert to grant him subsidies; but the mandates of its deputies were limited to twelve months, and its decrees were to have force for only three years.