The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.

总统和他的支持者们几乎肯定地认为这次投票是对继续进行经济改革的授权。

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Georgia's recent transport bill has now granted MARTA a reprieve from this mandate until 2012, when the bill will allow Georgia's electorate to vote on transport projects in November's ballot.

佐治亚最新的客运条例已经允许MARTA到2012年以前缓行这个要求，到那时佐治亚的选民将在11月的选举中再决定应该选择怎样的运输体系。

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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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