And the total number of viewers hardly constitutes a national mandate.

"Contemporary Glocal: positioning a national mandate within a global context."

Once the process became stalled, he would call new elections himself, saying he needed a national mandate to pursue "peace with security."

Mr. Bush might even have been able to mount the case that he had a national mandate.

And he'll have a national mandate to do something in this area.

He has a fragile base but wants a national mandate.

"But passing a law provides a national mandate for schools and libraries."

In that lies the problem in translating the California vote into a national mandate.

We believe that those who come here as observers should relinquish their national mandates.

With a national mandate to cut taxes and shrink government, new spending is difficult to pass.