Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

The mandate of the commission was to determine how well the current Advantage program meets the needs of students, faculty, and staff and to examine how the role of technology in the postsecondary environment has changed at Acadia, and elsewhere.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Soon, however, the Liberals faced another divisive crisis when a National Government was proposed to fight the 1931 general election with a mandate for tariffs.

Though enjoined by royal mandate in 1501 for general use within the realm of Scotland, it was probably never widely adopted.

In November 1979, the Transitional Government of National Unity ( GUNT ) was created with a mandate to govern for 18 months.

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.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

Because clerics resisted it, the celibacy mandate was restated at the Second Lateran Council ( 1139 ) and the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 64 ).

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 CUC had a task force whose mandate was to consider revising them.

The first UN troops arrived the next day but there was instant disagreement between Lumumba and the UN over the new force's mandate.

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.

The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced as late as the 17th century, proposing that kings rule by divine decree ; Japanese Emperors ruled by divine mandate until the inception of the Japanese constitution after World War II

Later, however, the Sultan changed his orders and had Fakhr-al-Din and his family killed on 13 April 1635 in Istanbul, bringing an end to an era in the history of Lebanon, which would not regain its current boundaries until it was proclaimed a mandate state and republic in 1920.

Much of the 20th century was dominated by one José María Velasco Ibarra, whose 5 presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and final presidency ended in 1972.

However, Amnesty International declined to publicize this material ; the Secretary-General of the organization, Pierre Sane, said at the time in an internal communication that " what they do with the bodies after human rights violations are committed is not part of our mandate or concern ".

The " King letter " said that providing ballots or interpreters in multiple languages is a costly, unfunded mandate.

Boisclair said that the voters clearly did not support a strategy of a rapid referendum in the first mandate of a PQ government ( This is shown by recent polls which demonstrate most Quebecers are not ready for another separation referendum ).

Ralph Winter was brought on to the project as producer shortly after Bennett's departure, and said Paramount's mandate was to produce a 25th anniversary film that would not cost a lot of money.

" They said to Cincinnatus that they hoped " it might turn out well for both him and his country ," and then they asked him to put on his senatorial toga and hear the mandate of the senate.

Often minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of constulting with party represenitives with Congressional representation.

Often minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of consulting with party representatives with Congressional representation.

The overthrowal of the Shang Dynasty, they said, was in accord with the mandate given by Heaven.

Salisbury — in an article in November for the National Review entitled ‘ Constitutional revision ’— said that the new government, lacking a majority in England and Scotland, had no mandate for Home Rule and argued that because there was no referendum only the House of Lords could provide the necessary consultation with the nation on policies for organic change.

Following the conclusion of said debates, the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ) released an official mandate on July 18, 1932, announcing the decision to all the mosques across Turkey, and the practice was continued for a period of 18 years.

In December 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of Veneman, “ She has fulfilled her mandate with immense dedication, and I have been impressed by her extraordinary energy and determination to improve children ’ s health, education and well-being around the world.

A Confucian, Chương said that the regime had alienated " the strongest moral forces ", implying that they had lost the mandate of heaven.

Pressed on the matter in early 1914, he said that he didn't feel his government had a mandate from the people to enact such a major change as introducing female suffrage.

Writing in The Spectator, commentator Melanie Phillips said that the resolution that created the mandate allowed no such change and questioned the validity and political motivations of the new mandate.

In one speech Shang Tang said that creating chaos is not something he wanted, but given the terror of Jie, he has to follow the mandate of heaven and use this opportunity to overthrow Xia.

The second group is that of those who, " under the pressure of particular circumstances, have consented to receive episcopal ordination without the pontifical mandate, but have subsequently asked to be received into communion with the Successor of Peter and with their other brothers in the episcopate "; in view of the existing confusion on the part of Chinese Catholics, the Pope said: " It is indispensable, for the spiritual good of the diocesan communities concerned, that legitimation, once it has occurred, is brought into the public domain at the earliest opportunity, and that the legitimized Bishops provide unequivocal and increasing signs of full communion with the Successor of Peter.

" The third group is that of the " very small number ... who have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation "; these, the Pope said, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ", and " the faithful, taking this into account, where the eucharistic celebration and the other sacraments are concerned, must, within the limits of the possible, seek Bishops and priests who are in communion with the Pope: nevertheless, where this cannot be achieved without grave inconvenience, they may, for the sake of their spiritual good, turn also to those who are not in communion with the Pope.

The court said, " Recognizing that the right to differ is the centerpiece of our First Amendment freedoms, a government cannot mandate by fiat a feeling of unity in its citizens.

The original PLO Charter stated the desire for a Palestinian state established within the entirety of the borders of the British mandate prior to the 1948 war ( i. e. the current boundaries of the State of Israel ) and said it is a " national duty ... to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine.

In Chinese political philosophy, since the historical period of the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ), the political legitimacy of a ruler and government was derived from the Mandate of Heaven, and that unjust rulers who lose said mandate, therefore lose the right to rule the people.

" The case demonstrates the need for Congress to mandate the complete disclosure of all clinical studies for FDA-approved drugs so that patients and their doctors, not the drug companies, decide whether the benefits of taking a certain medicine outweigh the risks ," Rep. Hinchey said.

UN permanent ambassador Itzhak Levanon ( Israel ) said " that as the list of candidates for Special procedures mandate holders was put forward today, was overwhelmed at the profound sense of lost opportunity.

Marius Grinius ( Canada ) said, " that the appointment of this slate of Special procedures mandate holders marked an important milestone in the development of the Council.

General Motors comprehensively contended that the Government plan would not be `` in the public interest '' as required by the mandate of this Court.

These elections constitutionally must be held no longer than every five years apart, however elections can be called whenever the Government so chooses to seek a new mandate or loses a vote of no confidence in Parliament.

A ruler lacking such a mandate need not be obeyed.

Other types of business organizations, such as cooperatives, credit unions and publicly owned enterprises, can be established with purposes that parallel, supersede, or even replace the profit maximization mandate of business corporations.

Heaven would bless the authority of a just ruler, but would be displeased with a despotic ruler and would withdraw its mandate.

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 ".

Most franchisors require franchisees to sign agreements that mandate where and under what law any dispute would be litigated.

However, such political techniques can also be used by leaders without the formal rank of head of state, even party-and other revolutionary leaders without formal state mandate.

By similar procedure, an original mandate may be declared invalid.

But nuclear experts say that the agency's complicated mandate and the constraints imposed by its member states mean that reforms will not happen quickly or easily, although its INES " emergency scale is very likely to be revisited " given the confusing way in which it was used in Japan.

In Arizona, the government can mandate in-patient treatment for anyone determined to be " persistently or acutely disabled.

However, Syria was scheduled to be an independent country, a so-called Class A Mandate, and the rights granted to France were far less than over other mandate territories.

Many assume that the “ Mandate for Palestine ” is a Class “ A ” mandate, a common but inaccurate assertion that can be found in many dictionaries and encyclopedias, and is frequently used by the pro-Palestinian media and lately by the ICJ.

Due to these factors, full-contact matches tend to be more aggressive in character, but rule sets may still mandate the use of protective equipment, or limit the techniques allowed.

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.

Further, that this mandate had to be obeyed in order to remain in communion with the Roman church.

On June 11, 2011, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts issued a statement regarding episcopal consecrations in China, saying that the penalty of excommunication imposed by law on those who consecrate or are consecrated without a papal mandate " must be tempered or a penance employed in its place " when those involved in the intrinsically evil act are " coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or due to necessity or grave inconvenience ".

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

Starfleet has been shown to handle diplomatic, scientific, and defense missions, although their main mandate seems to be peaceful exploration in the search of sentient life, as declared in the mission statements for different incarnations of the USS Enterprise.

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.

To avoid a " runaway convention ", in which unexpected or damaging amendments could be considered, the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress ; on June 12, 1911, it passed in the Senate by a vote of 64 to 24, with 4 not voting, and on May 13, 1912, passed in the House by a vote of 238 to 39, with 110 not voting.