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mandate

[man-dayt] / ˈmæn deɪt /


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In short, how does he intend to transform his undeniable popularity as a sporting figure into a political mandate?

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

“Every company has an ethics mandate, and Nvidia is no exception to that.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

The brutally angular design was rumored to have sprung directly from the mind of Musk himself, with the mandate to the Tesla design team to make it so.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

If he comes up short, Herzog can provide a 14-day extension before he has to offer the mandate to someone else.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

The Army does not exactly have a mandate to fight viruses on American soil.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

These local mandates range from $8.75 in West Virginia to nearly three times the federal standard in Seattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

The safety rules for operators of private charter flights are very different from commercial airlines: pilots don’t need as much experience, black boxes aren’t always required, and there isn’t a mandated retirement age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

That is below a legally mandated target for 70 percent by November 1.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Jails: In 2020, 57% of county voters approved Measure J. This mandated that at least 10% of locally generated, unrestricted revenue be allocated to incarceration alternatives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The state also does not have a law in place mandating runoff elections.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

In New Hampshire and Michigan, parents have had success increasing recess in some schools and are pushing for state laws mandating it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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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