Translation of mandate in Spanish:
mandate
mandato, n.
See Spanish definition of mandato
noun
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(authority)mandato masculine- Newly elected ministers invariably choose to regard an election victory as conferring a mandate on their policies.
- Perhaps politicians should seek a new mandate from the electorate if they are unable to fulfil their promises.
- The ones who win and form the next government would thus have the mandate to pursue their policies and programmes.
- Neither side of the policy divide believes that it can win a popular mandate for its policies and fight things out in an open and honest form.
- No president for more than a century has assumed office with less of a popular mandate for his policies.
- We will therefore go back to the electorate to renew our mandate with confidence.
- The temptation must be enormous to ask the electorate for a fresh mandate, now that the latest opinion polls show he has enough support to be returned to power.
- What's more, he will claim a mandate for every single policy he comes up with, even if they didn't appear in the election campaign.
- Despite their mandate to serve their electorate, our representatives at the Commons are notoriously difficult to get hold of.
- That's the kind of mandate election authorities need to do their job.
- It simply provides that someone who changes his or her status in that kind of way needs to go and get a fresh mandate from the electorate.
- He lacks the freedom that a directly elected mayor gains from their direct relationship with the electorate and their clear mandate.
- In a general sense, therefore, action has not been linked to any policy mandate from the public.
- He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism.
- Hopkins said the election was a mandate from the voters.
- The rebels haven't even got a mandate through an election.
- If the present government cannot maintain the integrity of the country then it should dissolve itself and call an election so that mandates are clear.
- He has made clear that he is seeking a personal and a political mandate in this election.
- Some even felt that in such a situation, the only honourable course would be for the government to call an election to re-establish a mandate for a change in course.
- The public has grumbled to a point where it has lost faith in the Authority because of its failure to carry out its mandate.
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(trusteeship)mandato masculineunder UN mandate — bajo mandato de la ONU- the British mandate in Palestine — el protectorado / mandato británico de Palestina
- For the next 25 years, Syria was governed by French colonial administrators under a mandate from the League of Nations.
- Another category of dependent imperial territory was formed by League of Nations mandates.
- After the war, Japan continued to rule the islands under a mandate from the League of Nations.
- After the war the League of Nations gave Britain, Australia, and New Zealand a trustee mandate over the territory.
- Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.
- A forged cheque is not a valid mandate, and the bank cannot debit the customer's account.
- If that were right one would expect to see wives being independently advised before signing a typical mandate for a joint account.
- He showed his value pretty quickly, pointing out that banks must have a legal mandate to debit someone's account.
- When you fill in the application form for a joint account it will include a mandate giving you both the authority to access the account and the money in it.
- If you have a friend or relative you completely trust, ask your bank to provide them with a third-party mandate.
- the British mandate in Palestine — el protectorado / mandato británico de Palestina
transitive verb
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(delegate) (instruct) dar instrucciones a(delegate) (authorize) autorizarthe delegates were mandated to … — los delegados recibieron instrucciones / recibieron el mandato de …- Having made this judgment, the Security Council may then mandate the US and its allies to use force in order to remove him.
- With the money, it will acquire and restructure more mills, as mandated by the State Council.
- Well, the problem here is, the ballot initiatives mandate something like 70 percent of the spending in the budget.
- The program was mandated to render assistance to forest occupants in developing and improving the ecological health of open and denuded forestlands by planting a combination of agricultural crops and tree species.
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(make compulsory)(attendance/procedure/payment) exigir- Current Army requirements mandate change in order to move into the future.
- For such patients, it may be unrealistic to mandate abstinence as a requirement for treatment.
- The federal government has begun mandating it, and they insist that their architects earn at least a bronze rating.
- In the states that began to mandate paternity leave, a slightly greater number of fathers utilized it.
- Arkansas recently became the first to mandate liability insurance as a requirement for obtaining a certificate.
- Guatemala's government is about to mandate a catch-and-release policy, but most boats already do so.
- The law doesn't allow judges to deny such requests and it mandates payment for investigators and expert witnesses.
- The law would mandate children from kindergarten to second grade be taught Spanish at the same time they're learning English.
- More math and reading courses for elementary school teachers were mandated.
- Sometimes the text clearly mandates this, in which case I take it that many advocates of judicial restraint wouldn't object.
- His task in the next two hours, as mandated by the US State Department, is to summarise baseball for the foreign press.
- Until recently it had suffered few consequences, other than economic sanctions that were mandated by Congress.
- Likewise, mandating a ‘two winter’ test cycle might be needlessly conservative as computer models become more predictively accurate.
- People just seem to think that this can be mandated and then the world's problems are going to be solved.
- They wanted it to be mandated, and they wanted legislation that would drive people to do that - just as this bill does.
- By the same token, let's examine the minimum wages as mandated by legislation.
- For that reason, I do not believe that parental notification should be mandated by law.
- An emergency meeting of the Irish regional executive is expected to be mandated by the six Irish districts during the week.
- The rules, and thus the inconvenience, have always been mandated by the federal government.
- At the same time, the FCC, as mandated by the act, will again review its media ownership rules.
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HistoryPalestine was mandated to the British in 1922 — en 1922 se concedió el mandato de Palestina a Gran Bretaña- mandated territory — territorio bajo mandato
- mandated territory — territorio bajo mandato