The mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This derives from Jackson's consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "... the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate ," ( that is, the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict ).

This doctrine derives from the biblical mandate to be holy as God is Holy ( Lev 20. 26 ).

Barlas rejects the designation of her views and interpretations of Islam as " Islamic feminism ," unless that term is defined as " a discourse of gender equality and social justice that derives its understanding and mandate from the Qur ’ an and seeks the practice of rights and justice for all human beings in the totality of their existence across the public-private continuum.

The mandate is distinguished from the appeal court's opinion, which sets out the legal reasoning for its decision.

Territorial abbots follow all of the above, but in addition must receive a mandate of authority from the Pope over the territory around the monastery for which they are responsible.

Apart from increasing the presidential mandate from 5 years to 7 years, very few amendments of the 1996 Constitutional Reform have been applied.

The effort was a long struggle ; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1 ) the political circumstances in the country had created a genuine duty for him to offer himself as a candidate, and 2 ) that there was a mandate from the populace for him to be their President.

As client devices usually do not know when users may unplug them from the network, the protocol does not mandate the sending of DHCP Release.

On April 19, 2008, NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell sent a memo to the Detroit Red Wings organization that forbids Zamboni drivers from cleaning up any octopuses thrown onto the ice and that violating the mandate would result in a $ 10, 000 fine.

It was a consultative assembly of 78 parliamentarians drawn from the national parliaments of member states ( see dual mandate ), having no legislative powers.

In contrast, the Holy See has not questioned the validity of the consecrations that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre performed in 1988 for the service of the relatively numerous followers of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X that he had founded, and of the bishops who, under pressure from the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, " have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation ", and who consequently, Pope Benedict XVI has declared, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ".

The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923 – 1948.

Nevertheless, Portillo's impressive electoral triumph, with two-thirds of the vote in the second round, gave him a claim to a mandate from the people to carry out his reform program.

The ruling Communist party, known as the " Socialist Unity Party " ( SED ), was formed in April 1946 from the merger between the German Communist Party ( KPD ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) by mandate of Joseph Stalin.

With the end of World War I, Britain was given a mandate over the area known as Palestine, which it had conquered from the Ottomans.

The original mandate for ICANN came from the United States government, spanning the presidential administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

These include the Governmental Advisory Committee ( GAC ), which is composed of representatives of a large number of national governments from all over the world ; the At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ), which is composed of representatives of organizations of individual Internet users from around the world ; the Root Server System Advisory Committee, which provides advice on the operation of the DNS root server system ; the Security and Stability Advisory Committee ( SSAC ), which is composed of Internet experts who study security issues pertaining to ICANN's mandate ; and the Technical Liaison Group ( TLG ), which is composed of representatives of other international technical organizations that focus, at least in part, on the Internet.

This is not the case in England and Wales, where under the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) Act of 1991 ( amended by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act, 2004 to remove the option of a guardianship order ), the court can mandate a hospital order, a restriction order ( where release from hospital requires the permission of the Home Secretary ), a " supervision and treatment " order, or an absolute discharge.

In February 1947, the British announced that they would end the mandate and withdraw from Palestine and they asked the arbitration of the United Nations.

A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League.

This mandate included Lebanon ; Hatay ( a former Ottoman Alexandretta sandjak ) broke away from it and became a French protectorate until it was ceded to the new Republic of Turkey.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

France has received a single mandate from the Council of the League of Nations, but in the countries subject to that mandate, one can distinguish two distinct States: Syria and the Lebanon, each State possessing its own constitution and a nationality clearly different from the other.

The Dayton Agreement, signed in 1995, banned the then President of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadžić from office and Plavšić was chosen to run as the SDS candidate for President of the Republika Srpska for a two-year mandate.

The administration of the Territory continued to be carried out under the terms of the mandate until its transfer to the Trusteeship System under the Charter of the United Nations by the Trusteeship Agreement of December 13, 1946.

The Representative has held meetings with interested parties including the Boards established under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement ( NLCA ), territorial and federal government departments in order to determine if devolution will occur and if so the future mandate of devolution.

It is politically independent ( by mandate of the Agreement providing details of the topics outlined in the BBC Charter ), non-profit, and commercial-free.

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, but after the French mandate ended in 1946, the land was administered by Syria, and represented as such in all maps of the time, including 1949 Armistice Agreement maps and Syrian and Lebanese military maps.

Arrangements may be formed to allow or mandate less restrained crossings ( e. g. Schengen Agreement ).

In light of the previously secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, and following the adoption of the mandate system on the Arab province of the former Ottoman lands, the conference heard statements from competing Zionist and Arab claimants.

( i. e. a united kingdom that would comprise all of what later became Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Iraq, so that Palestine ( inc. Transjordan ) would be a province of " Southern Syria "), but he was stymied by conflicting promises made by the British to different parties ( see Sykes-Picot Agreement ), leading to the French creation of the mandate of Syria in 1920.

Along with all other unionist MPs, he resigned from the House of Commons in December 1985 as part of a wider protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement of that year and to secure a renewed mandate from their electors.

It had no specific legal power although it did have a mandate under the Lincoln Agreement.

The mandate is to monitor the implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement and the redeployment of belligerent forces, to develop an action plan for the overall implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement, to work with the parties to obtain the release of all prisoners of war, military captives and the return of the remains, to facilitate humanitarian assistance and to assist the Facilitator of the National Dialogue.

Its original mandate was to support the Bonn Agreement ( December 2001 ).

Under what some say was pressure from the Vatican, he backed the Taif Agreement and hence the Syrian mandate over Lebanon in order to end the civil war, saying that it was " a fatal error to believe that we can live alone on an island in which we run our affairs as we like.

The PMG was unarmed and had no specific legal power ( though it did have a mandate under the Lincoln Agreement ).

This is no longer possible as NASCAR, per request of the Master Settlement Agreement signed with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1998, was forced to mandate a minimum age of 18.

Its mandate was to investigate the numerous human rights violations perpetrated by both sides in the armed conflict ; succinctly put, to inform Guatemalan society about exactly what had happened in the country between January 1962 and the signing of the Agreement on a Firm and Lasting Peace on 29 December 1996.