mandate
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As executive chairman of Apple's board, the company has said Cook's mandate includes engaging policymakers around the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Burnham has to wait to win his own mandate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Reaching the stage at which supervisors mandate terms is rare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In his speech, ap Iorwerth will say the election "delivered a clear mandate from the people of Wales for positive change that makes a tangible difference to their lives".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They are both members of the north Atlantic defence alliance, which mandates members to defend a fellow member-nation should they be attacked.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Transaction charges are the main contributor of NSE’s revenue, making the exchange sensitive to any regulatory mandates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
These mandates have helped draw growing quantities of domestic soybean oil toward biomass-based diesel production.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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These may be sold at price discounts as managers of longer-term funds are forced to sell before maturity in order to keep their portfolios’ durations above their own mandated levels.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Governing body the FIA said this was caused by a combination of the weather, low speed, the mandated wet-weather energy management settings and the circuit layout.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The agency said its available funding had fallen from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025, while the number of people it is mandated to protect is hovering around historically high levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a section called Transparency, the agreement mandated annual reports to the city that are supposed to include a range of disclosures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
This was a radical departure from Fitzsimmons’s regular training practices, which mandated that exercise riders never use whips on their horses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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They have also tried to stop poorly equipped climbers from summitting and mandating that visitors spend at least one night at one of the huts on the trails.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
In July, a federal judge ordered ICE to institute sweeping changes at the Adelanto center, mandating improvements in the provision of water, food, sanitation and medical care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The confusion that ensued became a "catalyst" for modern regulations mandating better flotation equipment on planes and preflight briefings on how to use it, aviation safety expert John Cox told AP.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Originally a state-owned enterprise, Air Canada remains legally bound by the country’s Official Languages Act, mandating bilingualism in its service and communications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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