The statement also calls on both commissions to "rigorously carry out their legal mandates to count all votes and to exclude all fraudulent votes."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

But he also encourage people not to study philosophy, or not to end there, and to go study and do something that would actually fulfill the ethical mandates of philosophy.

但是他却告诉人们不要去学哲学，或是不要局限于哲学，而是要学些别的东西,因为其他的知识可以,实现哲学提出的道德任务。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We are not in a country that mandates theology in terms of its constitutional law or its governance, you never gonna have the institutionalization of 5 daily prayers and things like that, people would be penalized.

我们所在的国家并没有将宗教,写进宪法或者法律法规里，你永远不会将每天五次祷告之类的事情,形成制度规范，这对人们不公。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Our bill holds Wall Street accountable and mandates real transparency so that large banks can't gamble our money in the shadows of the financial system."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Bigger government,more mandates, more control,less freedom, or lower costs,more opportunity, more freedom or more choice.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

"Congress,the administration and the states must recognize that out weak economy simply could not sustain all these new taxes, regulations and mandates now under consideration.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was among Democrats and Republicans characterizing the Goldstone report as biased,and taking aim at the U.N.Human Rights Council which established its mandates.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"The Human Rights Council mandates for the report specifically targeted Israeli actions, ignoring,ignoring the deliberate Hamas attacks on civilians that provoked Israel's self-defense in Operation Cast Lead .

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

As the Polish Constitution mandates, the speaker of parliament has taken on the role of interim president and new elections are to be scheduled within the next 2.5 months.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12