Father In Different Languages. After mother, 'father' is the word that almost all the kids learn to speak. It gives a man immense pleasure to be called 'dad', 'daddy', 'baba', 'papa' or even 'abbu' by his child.
Definition of mandate. 1  1 : an authoritative command; especially : a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one. 2  2 : an authorization to act given to a representative accepted the mandate of the people.
Congress shifted at least $131 billion in costs to states over the five year period of 2004 to 2008, according to NCSL's Mandate Monitor. The Mandate Monitor uses a definition of unfunded mandate that is broader than the one included in UMRA, because state and local officials view unfunded mandates more expansively.They interpret almost any federal decision that requires them to spend state or local funds as a cost shift.ANDATE MONITOR. The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) was adopted in an effort ...to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local governments..