mandate
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Gurjeet Grewal, chief of Octopus Electric Vehicles, added that weakening the mandate "would send exactly the wrong signal, just as EVs are becoming some of the best-value cars on the road".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Sunak also introduced more gradual targets for EV sales under the ZEV mandate.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Masino, a former Taco Bell executive, came to Cracker Barrel in 2023 with a mandate for change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The bill does not mandate the Angels — playing under a Los Angeles name in Anaheim’s city-owned stadium — revert to the Anaheim Angels name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Army does not exactly have a mandate to fight viruses on American soil.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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No country mandates that employers offer paid time off after the death of a pet.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
But Florida lawmakers haven’t gone along, and the mandates are still in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Standard procedure mandates that anyone suspected of smoke inhalation receives a bronchoscopic examination of their airways.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Lifting federal mandates might lead to better outcomes for children in the Great Society program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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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Investigators noted that Ryanair hadn’t completed fixes to strengthen various engine components that were mandated in three separate directives by the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lawmakers were denied entry when they tried to perform their mandated oversight duties at immigrant detention facilities.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Our ministry has mandated the compulsory use of life jackets, and we have supplied them in thousands to riverine states," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Historically, it has been up to Congress to oversee monetary policy through a semiannual hearing mandated by law.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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It said this includes mandating tech firms ban those who post scams and prevent them from creating new accounts, as well as those who impersonate real businesses.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
Notably, all nine Justices reject B.P.J.’s challenge that the West Virginia law violates Title IX, the 1972 law mandating equality in men’s and women’s education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
President Donald Trump signed two directives on Monday mandating the creation of a research-grade quantum computer by 2028 and accelerating the government’s shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2031.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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
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