1.   Many mandates were, like the English royal judicial writs, of a stock type.

2.   Also gone is the mandate that every teacher pull playground duty.

3.   Another mandate may be necessary to spell out what will happen in the interim.

4.   At a time when audiences are fleeing network television in droves and critics view it as a medium devoid of artistic merit, the mandate is survival.

5.   At times, the government mandate has been broadly inclusive.

6.   Baker is saying the Republican mandate is clear.

7.   A shaky mandate is no help.

8.   A study of isolated spots like Rio Frio might help show them how unclear the mandate for change was for some people.

9.   A. Our historical mandate is to look at life at work.

10.   Bush argued Sunday that there should not be federal mandates on spending.