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It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Recess is just as important for middle school and high school students, yet they are often left out of policies that mandate it.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

California does not have a statewide mandate dictating how far a firearms retailer must be from a school or day care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

In a fundamentally changed market environment, adapting the company to new realities is management’s core responsibility, and the credibility of that mandate will be judged closely by capital markets, it adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Because Mexican racing officials were not bound by the mandate that every horse carry at least 100 pounds, they could give Seabiscuit 130 while assigning other horses fewer than 100 if they needed to.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

"International courts and tribunals must be able to freely carry out their mandates," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

To this day, Switzerland mandates that every citizen must have access to a nuclear bunker, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Return-to-office mandates also have hiring managers more focused on candidates’ personalities.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Standard procedure mandates that anyone suspected of smoke inhalation receives a bronchoscopic examination of their airways.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 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 party is also calling for proper enforcement of teacher's legally mandated working hours, the introduction of reasonable limits on overtime, and for all schools to be required to introduce flexible working policies.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Medicaid estate recovery has been a mandated federal policy since 1993, set up primarily to recoup rising costs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Their final request was that the treatment mandated after the medical assessment "be provided without delay".

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

Its eventual demolition had been planned from its inception: both Newsome Park and next-door Copeland Park, for whites, were mandated to last only as long as the war.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Both Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, have moved away from mandating minimum distances between incoming aircraft in favour of a system which continually calculates spacing times based on wind speeds and aircraft types.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

In the late 2010s, local governments in China began mandating that power producers pair renewable projects with energy storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities.

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