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The Fed has a dual mandate of maintaining price stability and maximum employment, and generally keeps interest rates higher to curb inflation, or lower to boost the jobs market.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

In his absence, the team has been held by a trust controlled by Allen’s sister, Jody Allen, with a mandate that the team eventually be sold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Has Burnham been given the electoral mandate to do it?" he asks.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

That pledge was unusual because it suddenly elevated inflation risks above the Fed’s other mandate of maximum employment, after five years of price gains running higher than the central bank’s 2% target.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Our mandate now was to share it with the rest of the country.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The agreement also mandates a legally enforceable whistleblower protection policy, a comprehensive Survivor Bill of Rights, anonymous online reporting, and a prohibition on confidentiality agreements that silence survivors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The new law mandates Mandarin as the primary language of education, government and social organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The influx of return-to-office mandates may have become more widespread since the pandemic because of employer skepticism about their remote employees’ performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 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

Historically, it has been up to Congress to oversee monetary policy through a semiannual hearing mandated by law.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Plenty of corporations have mandated that employees work in person or forfeit their jobs, but it’s rare that those consequences apply to leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The SEC mandated semiannual reports in 1955 and quarterly reports, as Atkins said, in 1970.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

It therefore mandated that only three out of five commissioners at the top of the agency could be of the president’s party.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

There were six of them, mandated by Babulya: two that every family lit, plus one each for Mama, Aunt Tzivyah, Papa, and Anya.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

One point of mandating U.S. stock-market exposure with the funds is to give future generations buy-ins on America’s economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

President David Goldberg agrees that simply mandating a new test is not enough and a clear pathway to address challenges identified by the assessment is needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

In April, a federal appeals court upheld the law mandating the display after a legal challenge.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Federal safety officials and lawmakers have been at odds over mandating systems enabling pilots to see nearby aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond