Because neither major party can achieve sweeping mandates, there is much competition for narrow numbers of swing voters or specific demographic groups.

The resolution would provide the committee with open-ended funding and invest it with a sweeping mandate.

Apartheid doesn't work; the sweeping mandate of 1948 was a cruel fraud, certain to end in disaster.

He was determined to form a broad coalition so that his parliamentary backing would match the sweeping electoral mandate he believed he had received.

Those inspections, however, were plagued by confrontations with the Iraqis that the sweeping mandate of the new Security Council resolution is intended to avoid.

That pledge helped him win the votes of more than 50 million Brazilians and a sweeping mandate.

Individual committees must soon climb into the ring to wrestle this beast, trying to translate a sweeping, faceless mandate into a nasty spending cut here, a biting tax increase there.

We have already seen what happened to the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it was taken over by an administration that didn't like large federal agencies with sweeping mandates.

With such a sweeping mandate, the lawmakers said the G.A.O. could expect more requests as the oversight continued.

In recent years coal has become a political issue and many haven't taken the time to realize how many individuals are affected by sweeping mandates and arbitrary emission deadlines.