That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.
Under the mandate system, Syria and Lebanon went to the French.
The next Treasury secretary inherits a badly shaken financial system, a mandate to rein in Wall Street's excesses, and hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of risky new programs ginned up by the current president to stop the bleeding.
Supporters of the plan argued the "individual mandate" is necessary for the system to work, while critics argued it is an unconstitutional intrusion on individual freedom.
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While many countries mandate the use of the metric system by law, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly passed laws that encourage voluntary adoption of the metric system.
As an Organization in the United Nations system with an institutional mandate for sport, UNESCO has promoted the development of the International Convention against Doping in Sport, which was the first legal instrument against doping worldwide.
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And since Mr Tsang's own popular mandate is even more tenuous, the system is biased towards inaction.
"Within the United Nations system, UNESCO's mandate to promote freedom of expression is clear and unequivocal" he said.
When a company of 50, 000 employees has several thousand applications, trying to create versions of all of those apps for each computer and mobile device operating system is an enormous unfunded mandate.
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The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.
But, ObamaCare supporters will say, we MUST have the mandate if we want to get everyone in the system.
Experience in Massachusetts suggests that the individual mandate is an important part of making such a system work.
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R. 2164, would mandate that all companies use an electronic employment verification system known as E-Verify when hiring new employees or, under a complicated set of rules, sometimes use E-Verify for existing employees.
One option for replacing the mandate is to push the uninsured into the new system by requiring them to sign up for insurance when applying for other government services, such as food stamps or school loans.
And it begins with the tax-and-mandate scheme that undermines the employer-provided health care system that has made it possible for small businesses like the one I used to run to provide health benefits for millions of our employees.
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Such a system would give the prime minister both the electoral mandate and the political power to deploy troops in trouble spots, and to sign treaties which are likely to be ratified by the parliament.
This system will assure health care for all with no individual mandate or employer mandate of any kind.
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In many ways, an online learning mandate appears to be yet another input-based requirement in a system already overburdened with mandates and in conflict with the very spirit of digital learning.
An alternative approach, which has been called system-wide or macroprudential oversight, would broaden the mandate of regulators and supervisors to encompass consideration of potential systemic risks and weaknesses as well.
For a while Poland threatened to veto the negotiating mandate, only relenting when the summit agreed to extend the Nice voting system until at least 2014, with an option to use it further until 2017.
Now Mr Afriyie will be teleported into the chair of the Allowances Committee, with a mandate to make recommendations about the value for money provided by the Ipsa system, the accountability issues around it, how fair it is for less well off members and those with families, and its effect on public confidence in Parliament.
When Mr. Gingrich endorsed the mandate in 1993, many Democrats were pressing for a government-run health system without private insurance companies.
R. 2164, a bill pending in the House Judiciary Committee, would mandate all employers in America use E-Verify, an electronic employment verification system, when hiring new workers.
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In important ways, the Swiss system resembles that of Massachusetts and PPACA. The Swiss have an individual mandate.
When the matter of extension of this mandate came up, the Ministry of Home Affairs pointed out certain deficiencies in the system of collecting the biometrics by multiple registrars, which may impact national security.
How can I carry out my mandate to empower women to stand up to abusive husbands, if I dare not stand up to a system that abuses the individual with impunity?
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