mandates
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It mandates that owners of the nearly 200 horses would not be allowed to sell them for slaughter or for the purposes of other horse-carriage businesses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Under the strict mandates of the Windsor Framework, these regulatory shifts also mean heavy administrative and logistical costs.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The letter signed by the three former employees claims they didn’t believe they “engaged with external parties outside the mandates of our jobs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The city must add 11,760 residential units by the end of the decade to meet state housing mandates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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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