dual mandate

collocation in English

meaningsofdualandmandate

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dual
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.əl/us
/ˈduː.əl/
with two parts, or combining ...
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mandate
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈmæn.deɪt/us
/ˈmæn.deɪt/
the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern ...
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(Definition ofdualandmandatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Similarly, it may be useful to disaggregate the classicaldualmandateof the ombudsman: to enhance parliamentary scrutiny over the executive, and to exercise judicial control over the public bureaucracy.
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In discussing the institution's oversight agenda, the classicaldualmandateof enhancing judicial control over the public bureaucracy and parliamentary scrutiny over the executive requires consideration.
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What we surely need to consider is how the virtual disappearance of thedualmandatecan be replaced.
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Whatever else comes out of the debate, it has made clear the incredible courage of those who have taken on thedualmandate.
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Holding adualmandatedoes not necessarily result in a conflict of interest or of loyalty.
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In my view, anydualmandateshould be for the shortest possible time.
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I have looked at the idea of adualmandate.
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This part would be raising questions, such asdualmandate, and not answering them.
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I will not go in detail into the difficulties ofdualmandate.
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But of course, it cannot be adualmandateof the present kind.
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We are of the view that after the first assembly it would be right for thedualmandateto cease.
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There is nothing unusual in adualmandateof that kind.
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You cannot get good internal communications working under adualmandate.
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I turn now to the question of thedualmandate.
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We are wasting a great deal of debating time considering the possibility of adualmandate.
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I share the view of those who regard thedualmandateas a nonsense.
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I am not surprised that the proposal for adualmandatehas had few, if any, supporters in the debate.
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I do not believe that there is any situation in which we could have adualmandate.
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I should like briefly to speak about the compulsorydualmandatewhich, as we all know, can be combined quite easily with any electoral system.
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That is unusual but not unique, as thedualmandatehas been held by a number of other colleagues.
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