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The recent round of layoffs marked the first of such action under CEO Keith Barr, a former hospitality executive who took over in March with a mandate to reinvigorate the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Recalling my therapist’s mandate, I didn’t answer right away.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

It added member clubs had already provided "a mandate to lobby for appropriate reform" which had "not kept pace with significant developments in stadium management, safety and stewarding".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

We also created a database mandate where landlords had to tell the city when they were evicting someone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

If a judge were to mandate the dissolution of the company, its factories would remain standing and its workers, accountants, managers and shareholders would continue to live—but Peugeot SA would immediately vanish.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Licensing, testing mandates and the regulatory machinery surrounding them impose costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

These mandates have helped draw growing quantities of domestic soybean oil toward biomass-based diesel production.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Texas once had renewable mandates but eliminated them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 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

The agency said its available funding had fallen from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025, while the number of people it is mandated to protect is hovering around historically high levels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Tobacco companies have long complained that the FDA review process for their new products regularly takes much longer than the around six months mandated by Congress—sometimes even taking years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I would love to see them go much further - something mandated, a minimum on the pitch at any one time," the Guardian's Garry told BBC Women's Football Weekly.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Quarantine rules can send a child home for days or weeks, causing a ripple effect on childcare responsibilities for parents in a country that does not have federally mandated paid sick time.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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

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 the last decade, states have started mandating individual meters in multifamily buildings; in 2018, California began requiring that water submeters be installed in newly constructed residences with two or more units.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

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

There may be some laws about this kind of communication, mandating a critical density and mass before it can function with efficiency.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas