#mandate

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

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#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

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#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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#governments #international #international law #law #mandated