mandate

Examples

• All

• How many people could the land and water resources of the Palestine Mandate accommodate?

  Academic text (1996)

• Accordingly we, members of the people's council, representatives of the Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British mandate over Eretz Yisrael.

  The Brutalist (2024)

• Syria and Jordan were mandate territories after World War I.

  Academic text (1999)

• This language was incorporated verbatim into the Mandate for Palestine given to Great Britain by the League of Nations.

• During the British Mandate period, over 96 percent of all new wells were dug by Jews.

  Academic text (1996)

• In 1948, Great Britain withdrew from its Arab mandates, and Israel declared its independence.

  Blog text (17)

• The British now oversee Palestine with their post war mandate without much regard for Arab nationalism in Palestine.

• This language was incorporated verbatim into the mandate for Palestine given to Great Britain by the League of Nations.

• At the Versailles Conference, America accepted a League of Nations mandate over Constantinople and other parts of Turkey.

• The British now oversee Palestine with their post war mandate without much regard for Arab nationalism in Palestine.

Synonyms

T

trusteeship

vsmandate

• Archaic

1 8.4

A territory governed by another country under United Nations supervision to prepare for self-rule

is assigned by the League of Nations to foreign governance until ready for self-rule

Compounds

M

Mandate of Heaven

• Literature

9.9

A traditional Chinese idea that Heaven gives emperors the right to rule while they govern well

Surface Forms

Etymology