Mandate

Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.

John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.

Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.

A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.

Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.

Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.

As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.