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We need to remind the commissioner of the red line of his mandate.

Christine Lagarde

This isn't a mandate but her suggestion the communities address this issue at a local level.

Joe Donovan

Any time you mandate something, you're going to have more resistance to it.

Ken Hammond

We have heard from our member hotels and they have expressed concern that the mandate may be a burden for the parents and players from outside our area.

Peter Aust

We hope to have a mandate from ministers today.

Stefaan De Rynck

I accept with humility and with great enthusiasm the mandate you have given me.

André Boisclair

The mandate for Koizumi is stronger than many had anticipated.

Lee Ferridge

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

Scott Price

It certainly gives us a mandate from the town to negotiate to see what we can arrange.

Gordon Weil

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

We have a complete specification, that meets the [IEEE] mandate.

Bill Bunch

They (the AU) need a stronger mandate with enough resources to implement it, ... Their Achilles' heel is in the area of logistical and communications requirements.

Romeo Dallaire

Having a president with such a big mandate is going to be an enormous boost.

Sidney Jones

This is one-off legislation to close a legal loop-hole and mandate this cut. The legislation cannot be used to mandate any further reductions.

Joseph Wong

It does seem that somebody wants to indicate that the conclave was a more complex process than was being depicted and that Benedict's mandate was not a slam-dunk.

David Gibson

The U.N. system in Nepal was going beyond its mandate, and the government was not going to heed their advice.

Ramesh Nath Pandey

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

The mandate of the delegation was to assess the security measures and we did a professional study.

Yashovardhan Azad

We believe retail supply chain is the next [big] thing, but it's slowly getting started, and it very much has a mandate feel.

Julie England

Parliament must reassemble. It is the only body with a mandate for negotiations.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

The most important is the fact that forces would come under the mandate of the United Nations and flag of the U.N.,

Vuk Draskovic

Each mandate doesn't cost very much necessarily ... but when you add up 49 mandates, the aggregate cost is pretty high.

Carl Gipson

We will accept more growth - we must by state mandate.

Dave Morrison

This time there is more buy-in by the business community. The individual mandate is the philosophical breakthrough.

Phil Johnston

It almost seems that the government is following, not leading, with its mandate.

Paul Resnik

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

I would have refused a mandate at a commission of inquiry that was investigating the program of another government.

Jean Pelletier

They basically passed a very expensive, completely unfunded mandate. But in the end, someone will pay for it.

Thomas Schatz

Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.

Keith Mckeown

This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.

Gerry Nicholls

An offer that was outside the mandate would not be binding for Europe and would therefore not enable an agreement in the round.

Catherine Colonna

If I were the government, I would fine the carriers each a million dollars a day until they comply with the FCC location mandate.

Alan Reiter

We tend not to mandate things.

Barbara Grunkemeyer

The RCMP have the mandate to enforce the law, and it's clear that the government has indicated to the RCMP, that we're fully supporting of their efforts to enforce the law.

Bernard Lord

Our dual mandate of fostering full employment and a stable price environment remains firmly in place.

Anthony Santomero

Without the mandate, it would not have been necessary to raise this year.

Tim Norman

In this time of defense budgets being what they are, there certainly is a mandate from the Pentagon to bring down costs to be competitive to meet their needs.

Dan Beck

This was a mandate. We've got momentum going here. All we ever wanted was a vote of the people and that is what we got.

John Chapman

Without saying that this is going to be my last mandate, I would like us to discuss the issue at all levels as it will be on top of the agenda at the next conference.

Ahmed Dogan

Our preference would have been that a government mandate of this nature be proposed and debated in the open so that all implications could be considered.

Mark Stinneford

OPG is not considering anything as a site. We have no mandate for that.

John Earl

In order to have a mandate from the country and a mandate from the province and a mandate from the city, one has to have a mandate from your riding and your constituents and that's not the case here.

Kevin Chalmers

The bill has teeth, it has substance but it doesn't mandate upon our states, ... It doesn't federalize the election process.

Bob Ney

I'm pleased to announce that we are expanding our efforts to involve an additional one million leaders in the Million Leaders Mandate program by the end of 2006.

John Hull

Without a mandate, shippers will not take on the economic burden.

Scott Rose

The voters delivered a mandate to continue on a new course we set two years ago.

Susan Savage

We are falling within the mandate that the Legislature gave us.

Robert Ceberio

It's also important to note that the point of the election was to strengthen Koizumi's reform mandate, so we'll be looking how he delivers on this front.

Luke Waddington

I have a responsibility to make sure my citizens are protected. That goes beyond the legal mandate.

Patrick Baker

It doesn't work well to mandate that from the state.

Charles Hasse

If the conflict drags on or gets worse, even though the head of state has spoken, it will become very tricky for him, and the end of his mandate will be very dark.

Dominique Reynié

The donors on the executive board expressed pretty serious concern about the operating conditions that were on offer and gave us a mandate to try and better them.

Gerald Bourke

Since last Friday, we've known that Chirac will not run for another mandate. It seemed absurd that he should do so anyway, but now the age factor has been multiplied by the health factor, and that makes it totally impossible, and that's why the fight has erupted between his successors.

Dominique Moisi

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Michael Crapo

I have just seen it on TV just like you. I'm in the government and I don't know this. The ministry that I head has not ordered the action. We don't have the mandate to do that.

Mutahi Kagwe

His No. 1 mandate is his performance on the ice. If he doesn't (play well), that wouldn't pay off for us.

Len Rhodes

The meetings are going well. We have a mandate we have to comply with (the ruling) by June 1. We're dedicated to finding a solution and we know we're going to find it.

Chris Cutrone

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

Chris Wedge

That will be the end from my personal mandate. I have to go back and I will go back to my job that I like. I never asked for this assignment. I agreed to be available up to seven months.

Detlev Mehlis

The two sides must agree on a mandate for the EU.

Cristina Gallach

What is clearly needed is a force on the ground that has the person power, the mandate and the logistical back up to be able to make a difference.

Ted Chaiban

What the president said very firmly yesterday is that the mandate of the Commission must be respected. But there is goodwill to explore all the terms of an accord which is indispensable.

Christine Lagarde

When we terminate this mandate, we have no authority to hand it over to the UN. This is not our business.

Baba Gana Kingibe

Now that there is a congressional mandate on the industry, this is when industry will look up and look towards new technology in the industry.

Erin O'donnell

Then the companies can figure out if whatever equipment they wish to install addresses or meets that mandate.

Edward Goldman

The Press has the mandate to inform, entertain, and educate the society and any action meant to interfere with this freedom will be resisted at all costs.

Ezekiel Mutua

It's too early to tell if there is going to be any impact. We got the mandate from the FTC just yesterday.

Eric Kraus