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Early in his first term, he oversaw the creation of the Office of Constitutional Policing with a mandate that included working on the issue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Throughout this campaign, we asked shareholders to give us the mandate to restore accountability, revitalize the business and return Ethan Allen to profitable growth,” Bergeron said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

I would say that’s a pretty clear mandate and a good place to start.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

Burnham has said that any changes would require a mandate at a general election, which is next due by 2029.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Papua New Guinea, as Yali’s nation is now called, was at that time still administered by Australia as a mandate of the United Nations, but independence was in the air.

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

The judge is expected to decide if Wong's offence is of a "grave nature", and if so, the security law mandates a prison stint of between 10 years and life.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

When mandates are in place, both women and men take the classes, she added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The city mandates annual five-week vacations for the horses and regular veterinary inspections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

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

Countries, including Poland, Norway and the Netherlands, have mandated similar rules to "boost the economic benefit from defence procurement", the statement continued.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Schools like Da Vinci are where mandated personal-finance education can have the biggest impact in narrowing socioeconomic and racial wealth gaps, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

She worried about the route that authorities had mandated for the demonstration in Paris, pointing out that parts of it were "extremely narrow" and that it passed by a gas station.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Last month, the government rolled out austerity measures to conserve fuel, including a ban on official foreign travel, and mandated early market closures, as well as a new fuel subsidy for low-income groups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

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

Four states — California, Delaware, Colorado and Hawaii — are now mandating that students take a semester-long personal-finance course before graduating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 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

That research, and other investigations like it, led to changes in air traffic regulations, mandating minimum distances between flight paths so as to prevent that kind of wake turbulence accident.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly