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Unfortunately, colleges, high schools, and even elementary schools are unlikely to mandate introductory courses in critical thinking on their own.
A central bank, he argued, needs a very simple mandate that allows it to explain its actions clearly and be held accountable for them.
There was no “activism” on their part; there was only a permanent mandate to fulfill.
As a rule, such operations were conducted under the Security Council's mandate.
They seem to believe that they can eventually bring down the Greek government by bullying it into accepting an agreement that contravenes its mandate.
The Uttar Pradesh elections gave Modi a strong mandate.
The international security force, staffed mainly by Turks, is being upgraded and its mandate extended to the entire country.
The new Commission thus risks losing its authority from the very start of its mandate.
But, over the last decade, the expectations raised by this mandate have not been met.
For now, Germany is satisfied with the status quo, enjoying stable growth and retaining control over domestic economic policy, while the ECB’s limited powers and strict mandate to maintain price stability ease fears of inflation.
Like the Bank of Japan in the 1990’s, it interprets its mandate narrowly.
In assessing how far it is from meeting its mandate, the Fed may be better served by shifting from unemployment to employment thresholds (for example, the employment/population ratio).
The closeness of the result suggests Bush won less of a mandate for change than he seems to believe.
More low-income housing credit has been one of the few issues on which President Bill Clinton’s administration, with its affordable-housing mandate, and that of President George W. Bush, with its push for an “ownership” society, agreed.
In short, despite rosy appearances, Brazil clearly faces a complex and, in some respects, daunting agenda, which newly elected President Dilma Roussef cannot be expected to accomplish within her current mandate.
In the words of a senior NGO human rights leader: “They’re punishing the Syrian people because they were unhappy that NATO took the mandate of protecting civilians in Libya and transformed it into a mandate for regime change.”
Back in 1947, when the UN General Assembly voted to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, Jews of the British Mandatory state of Palestine danced in the streets of Tel Aviv.
In the Fed’s case, the presumption that the US will soon approach full employment has caused the so-called dual mandate to collapse into one target: getting inflation back to 2%.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t make speeches attacking the strong euro and the European Central Bank’s price stability mandate.
He consistently blamed France’s poor export performance on the strong euro, favoring a politically subservient ECB whose mandate should include economic growth as well as price stability.
According to Trichet, Sarkozy has reversed course since winning the election, and no longer will press the ECB to broaden its mandate.
They gave assurances that, while NATO has adopted a global approach to security, its main activities outside Europe and Afghanistan will primarily comprise dialogue with partners or, in special cases, joint defensive measures with other security institutions under a UN mandate, such as in the Gulf of Aden.
A possible answer lies in an early election: a new mandate for an India that is in desperate need of renewal.
But the ECB, whose only mandate is to maintain price stability, cannot pursue this policy without fundamental changes in legislation.
Moreover, it may worry about antagonizing countries that are not offered such facilities; and it may fear criticism from Congress for overstepping the bounds of its mandate if its talk and policies acknowledge its global responsibilities.
But the UN also has a mandate to respect its member states’ sovereignty, which means that it must acknowledge an internationally recognized regime’s authority over its territory and the people living there.
And although Merkel seems indispensable on the international scene, plenty of people in Germany are starting to plan for the end of her mandate, which is now going on 12 years.
But the acting head of an organization has no mandate for change.
Although UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the UN Security Council to move rapidly to authorize the proposed joint force, member governments remain deadlocked over its mandate.
But, given such investors' long-term liabilities (claims and benefits), their mandate is to invest mostly in bonds, which are less risky than stocks or other volatile assets.
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