The reason this isn't a terrible assumption is you could think that getting a higher share of the vote gives you a mandate.

这么假设没什么不妥,因为你可以认为获得更多的票数,意味着你会获得委任机会

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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.

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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.

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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.

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