exceed the mandate(The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that the Environmental Protection Agency had exceeded its mandate with ... | Some countries like Russia and China, while not standing in the way of the Nato mission, believe that the alliance exceeded its mandate. BBC Alexander Demidov)
mandate given(Health Protection Agency and the European Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (acting under the mandate given by the European | In the US, only the Federal Reserve and two other federal regulators were at work under the mandate given by the Treasury Department. Alexander Demidov)