Therefore, one way to distinguish between networks of practice and work groups created through formal organizational mandate is by the nature of the control mechanisms.

Because it is a Communist Party-led office with no formal legal mandate, it is sometimes described as an extralegal organisation.

On the second day of the coup, he received a formal mandate from King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

They are willing to diverge from the formal economic mandate but not to make major decisions in security and weapons issues.

While the formal fiscal mandate still stands, the chancellor may have to revise these words:

As required of Jesuit priests, he initially declined the honor, but was then sent a formal mandate from the Holy See.

Matters of a kind that, frankly, it would not have been necessary to reiterate had there been a formal mandate.

It must only be contemplated on the basis of a formal and written mandate from the United Nations.

In 1924, as the League of Nations issued a formal mandate that granted Belgium full control over the area, the area officially became Ruanda-Urundi.