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"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer",
"text": "Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.",
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"ref": "2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press, page 30",
"text": "John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.",
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"ref": "2000 October 6, John Richards, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1919-2000”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2019-10-09",
"text": "Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "authorize",
"word": "授權"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "authorize",
"word": "授权"
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"word": "ermächtigen"
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"word": "bevollmächtigen"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "legitimieren"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "authorize",
"word": "autorizzare"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "upolnomóčivatʹ",
"sense": "authorize",
"word": "уполномо́чивать"
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"roman": "avtorizovátʹ",
"sense": "authorize",
"word": "авторизова́ть"
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"ref": "2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3",
"text": "Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him.\nRoy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!"
}
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