The United States Office of Management and Budget began to mandate the use of EVM across all government agencies, and, for the first time, for certain internally managed projects ( not just for contractors ).

* February 20, 2002: After discussions on the purpose of the Office in the US media, Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, assures the public in an interview that Defense Department officials will not undermine the credibility of US institutions by lying to the public, and states that the exact mandate of the office is under review.

The Connecticut Supreme Court clarified these circumstances, during the John G. Rowland impeachment, in Office of the Legislature v. The Select Committee On Inquiry, 271 Conn. 540 ( 2004 ), holding that the legislature can issue subpoenas only in conjunction with its mandate under the state constitution.

Labour, mindful of the overwhelming opposition of Africans from both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and of the Colonial Office mandate to oversee native interests, had been lukewarm at best to the idea of federation, and had been wholly opposed to amalgamation.

Forty years after Stockham's death in 1912, the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office issued a moratorium, citing an express mandate of Pope Pius XII.

Not until 1923 did the U. S. Post Office finally mandate that every household install a mailbox or mail slot in order to receive home delivery of mail.

The Campus Clubs Organizations ( CCO ) has the mandate on all student organizations within the university, except the Special Organizations created by the Office of Student Affairs.

The British Foreign Office was willing to allow either the United States or Great Britain to administer the proposed Palestine mandate, but not the French or the Italian governments.

It is not an autonomous body ; unlike the Office of National Assessments, the DIO is a subordinate organisation within the Department of Defence with no separate statutory mandate or direct budget line.

I am now able to inform you that such persons may be considered prima facie within the mandate of this Office .”

In November 1997, following the completion of UNOMIL's mandate on 30 September, the United Nations established the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in Liberia ( UNOL ), headed by a Representative of the Secretary-General.

His mandate derives from the Dayton Agreement, as confirmed by the Peace Implementation Council, an ad hoc body with a Steering Board composed of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK, the United States, the presidency of the European Union, the European Commission, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

The United Nations was given a mandate to enforce a ceasefire, and deal with refugees and disarmament known as the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ).

Under the mandate carried out by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ), $ 1. 72 billion ( 1. 72 G $) was spent in an effort to bring basic security, stability and democratic rule to the country.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

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

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.

President Bakiyev was widely expected to retain his mandate, while the opposition United People's Movement ( OND ) announced on 20 April 2009 that it would field a single candidate – Social Democratic Party leader Almaz Atambayev.

In the United States, state level right-to-work laws mandate the open shop in some states.

This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the " Council of Ten " ( the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan ) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations.

Fourteen mandate territories were divided up among seven mandatory powers: the United Kingdom, the Union of South Africa, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

* 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

In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that Japan, which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a " strategic trust territory " known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United States administration.

Following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, its mandate became a United Nations Trusteeship, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, ruled by the United States.

Following World War I it became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

" In 1923, the League of Nations gave Australia a trustee mandate over Nauru, with the United Kingdom and New Zealand as co-trustees.

In the United States, NASA has a congressional mandate to catalogue all NEOs that are at least 1 kilometer wide, as the impact of such an object would be catastrophic.

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After a post World War I League of Nations mandate was established over Lebanon in April 1920, France formed the Army of the Levant, which was later reorganized into the " Troupes Spéciales du Levant " ( Special Troops of the Levant ).

According to the British, who had been awarded a League of Nations mandate over Iraq in 1920 and therefore represented Iraq in its foreign affairs, Mosul belonged to Iraq ; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland.

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.

The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, entered into on 28 June 1919.

The League of Nations decided the exact level of control by the Mandatory power over each mandate on an individual basis.

However, in every case the Mandatory power was forbidden to construct fortifications or raise an army within the territory of the mandate, and was required to present an annual report on the territory to the League of Nations.

( 1 ) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power ; ( 2 ) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory ; and ( 3 ) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it council considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after assertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant.

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.

## Providing substantive analysis and support to the High Commissioner in his or her mandate to enhance system-wide support for the right to development ;

Tanganyika as a geographical and political entity did not take shape before the period of High Imperialism ; its name only came into use after German East Africa was transferred to the United Kingdom as a mandate by the League of Nations in 1920.

The mandate of this High Commission was subsequently expanded to include persons from Austria and Sudetenland.

Following the provision of mandate to France and Britain at San Remo in April, the British appointed a High Commissioner in Palestine with a remit over the area west of the Jordan, and the French ended the Kingdom of Syria at the battle of Maysalun.

* The British Mandate of Iraq High Commissioners – After Ottoman Iraq was conquered by British forces, the mandate territory had four incumbents, after a single civilian Administrator ( 10 January 1919 – 1 October 1920 Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson ), continuing ten years after the accession to the throne and most of the rule of the country's first Malik ( King, reigned 23 August 1921 – 8 September 1933 ) Faysal I ( b. 1885 – d. 1933 ):

** 1 July 1920 – 1925 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel ( 1879 – 1963 ), until the 1922 establishment of the mandate actually the first civilian who took over, already as High Commissioner, from the three consecutive military administrators since the 1917 conquest by British forces

* In Togo, once a German colony, then a League of Nations mandate, * three High commissioners

As per an agreement between Nauru and Australia in 1976, in application of article 57 of the Constitution of Nauru, the High Court of Australia is the ultimate court of appeal for the sovereign Republic of Nauru, formerly an Australian League of Nations mandate.

He was appointed to the position of High Commissioner in 1920, before the Council of the League of Nations approved a British mandate for Palestine.

Despite the decision made by Chancellor Seitz and upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court, the two schools of Hockessin Elementary and Claymont High School would not have integrated in 1952 because the State Board of Education did not give these schools an official mandate to do so.

The Claymont High Board of Education met on September 3, 1952 and decided they would enroll the black students even without a mandate.

* Phase 2: Escort of Humanitarian Aid-On 14 September 1992, UNPROFOR was given a mandate by the United Nations Security Council to protect humanitarian relief convoys as requested by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and provide ground transportation for difficult routes.

The National Federation of State High School Associations ( NFHS ), which sets rules for high school basketball in the U. S., does not mandate the use of a shot clock, instead leaving the choice to use a clock and its duration up to each individual state association.

" In 2004, the school name was changed to Lane Technical College Prep High School to reflect a college preparatory mandate.

" Years later, Napoleon opened an inquiry into the Convention of Andujar under the mandate of the Imperial High Court, in camera, which turned out yet another proclamation against Dupont.

In 25 July 2012, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, appointed him as the first European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights, with a two years mandate.

On 27 February 2007, the PIC decided to end the High Representative's mandate on 30 June 2008.