Mandate and Saying

Mandate

Mandate noun - The granting of power to perform various acts or duties.

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Saying and mandate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Saying" instead a noun "Mandate".

Saying noun - An often stated observation regarding something from common experience.

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Mandate and saying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mandate" instead a noun "Saying".

Nearby Word: say

old	old mandate	old saying
similar	similar mandate	similar saying
original	original mandate	original saying
true	true mandate	true saying
Other adjectives: actual, new, last, largest.

Mandate Schoolmen only relive the momentous parts of his life, to the point that they have a saying, "Seswatha never shits." This becomes a plot point when Achamian starts dreaming new, seemingly inconsequential parts of Seswatha's life and puzzles over their significance.

Source: Literature / Second Apocalypse
Also, the "Anathema" (actually celestial exalted, and they have a mandate straight from heaven saying that they should rule) are all utterly selfish and evil, so anything they do is part of an evil plan, even curing horrible diseases and saving small children. Yeah.

Source: Tautological Templar
Bendis is even on record saying that much of what happened in Battle Of The Atom was against his original plans due to editorial mandate, and he was taking the opportunity in issues 26-29 to bring it more in line with his intent now that he had more creative control.

Source: Comic Book / All-New X-Men

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