You're now looking at the possibilities that have just been opened up by the Federal Communications Commission's vote Tuesday to mandate that a prime block of spectrum the U.S. government will auction off early next year be open to any wireless device entrepreneurs care to concoct, Sarva, the chief executive of wireless start-up Txtbl argues.
To give himself a real shot at becoming Indonesia's next president, Rais needs to increase the disappointing 7.4% of the popular vote that his National Mandate Party won in the parliamentary elections last June.
When I vote, I vote for peace in whatever guise that may be, I don't vote to keep up the divides in this place, I don't vote to give a mandate to those who maintain the conflict and in a perverse way I think enjoy the conflict.
The vote has given solicitors the mandate to contact the BBC and make the offer.
Calls for the party to argue for growth measures outside the Treasury's "fiscal mandate" was overwhelmingly defeated in a vote following a conference debate.
During the oral argument, the key "swing" Justice, Anthony Kennedy, indicated that he would only vote to uphold the individual mandate if he could find a logical stopping point to the government's argument.
So the view from the ESRC conference was that the result of the vote may be merely a mandate to negotiate, and the strength or weakness of the result may contribute to shaping the outcome of those talks.
In a tight vote, some candidates may claim a mandate based on support from less than one in 10 of the local population.
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This was a confident President talking like a man who has won his second majority vote and now intends it to be a mandate to achieve his vision of government.
After all, the PDI-P had a clear mandate: It had won the largest share of the vote in June's parliamentary elections (34%) and had the most seats in the MPR (185 - 153 seats in parliament or the DPR, plus 32 regional representatives).
Since the campaign was pretty nasty in some level, and this was a first for Mexico - negative campaigning and all that - Mr. Calderon obviously needs to reach out, because he got elected by 35 percent of the vote, which isn't a real mandate.
The renewable electricity mandate was omitted after the Senate blocked the bill on a procedural vote last week.
In elections in which candidates receive well under 50% of the vote, the College can still give the winner an unmistakable mandate.
Growing support in the United States for anti-missile defences was highlighted by the recent vote of a Senate committee to back a bill that would mandate the building of a national missile shield for the United States as soon as technically possible.
"So overall our percentage of the vote is well within the range where we can claim to have a mandate".
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won a third mandate on Sunday, beating contender Henrique Capriles with more than 54% of the vote.
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Chief Justice John Roberts was the deciding vote in that decision, agreeing with his liberal colleagues to uphold the individual mandate, which would financially punish people who do not purchase health insurance.
With his mandate bolstered by the Republicans' success in American mid-term elections and now by a unanimous vote in the Security Council, America's efforts to find international support to force Iraq to disarm have been greatly boosted.
"More than five million people turned out to vote for the first ever election of police and crime commissioners, giving them an infinitely bigger mandate than the unelected and invisible police authorities they replaced, " a spokeswoman said.
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The individual mandate, as you know, was so Constitutionally controversial that it was barely upheld in a 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court.
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The hard truth is that Mr Ventura, who won 37% of the vote and beat his closest rival by a mere three percentage points, is a victor without a mandate.
It might be too late to get a vote on Ava's Law this spring, but Albers is looking for another bill where the autism mandate might be attached as an amendment.
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