"Making the magazine feel younger was specifically part of our mandate," she said.

Yet change appears, in at least some vague sense, to have been part of his mandate.

The educational component is part of the center's Congressional mandate as a national cultural center.

How the bishops have dealt with these issues is very much part of our mandate.

Public relations is an important part of its mandate.

"It will be part of our mandate to expand and create more diversity."

He won the battle, establishing contemporary music as part of the company's mandate.

It is part of their mandate and they should now also act on it.

Do you really intend to fulfill their information needs as part of your mandate?

And not just music, since world dance is very much part of his self-created mandate.