MANDATE in a Sentence

mandate

 n.  authoritative command or instruction; commission of authorizing to administer a territory

1  And this time the tone and manner in which the command was given, betokened such growing hostility that the two young men perceived, for the first time, that the mandate was addressed to them.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.

2  The above-mentioned purchase was made on his highness's account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.

3  On entering his house, he met Morrel, who wandered about like a ghost awaiting the heavenly mandate for return to the tomb.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.

4  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.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

5  Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to "follow," moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14

6  The mandate was obeyed; and the indignant Mr. Brownlow was conveyed out, with the book in one hand, and the bamboo cane in the other: in a perfect phrenzy of rage and defiance.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI

7  Long and habitual deference to the mandates of his superiors had taught the scout the virtue of obedience.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20

8  Chingachgook assumed the station to which his birth and experience gave him so distinguished a claim, with the grave dignity that always gives force to the mandates of a native warrior.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32

1  The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.

2  The President had a clear mandate to end the war.

3  Our election victory has given us a mandate to reform the economy.

4  The government gave the police a mandate to reduce crime.

5  They'll again haggle over a state mandate that would require businesses to give equal pay to men and women performing the same jobs.

6  He believes the mandate is an issue best left to the states, and that it is wrong to impose a one-size-fits-all federal plan on the entire nation.

7  The terms of their new mandate were hard for Iraq to accept, but it had no choice to spare the country war.

8  He claims a mandate from that referendum; but they face some unpleasant realities: more than 1,500 companies have moved their domicile outside the region, and tourist bookings have dipped.

9  A “shock and awe” campaign spearheaded by promises of economic growth, and the heavy use of huge, old-fashion rallies combined with high-tech holograms and social media bombardment looks to have brought what could be the strongest mandate for any government here since the 1980s.

10  The primary purpose and mandate of the group is to build capacity in the offshore halibut fishery to maximize benefits for Nunavummiut.

11  Environmental experts say real-time air quality updates mandated to start in 74 mainland cities on New Year's Day will leave local officials less room to manipulate data.

12  He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire.