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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

If approved, the mandate could reshape landscaping requirements for roughly 2 million structures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Malcolm Offord said Amanda Bland did not have a "personal mandate" to stay in the Scottish Parliament after she resigned from Reform to sit as an independent.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Newly elected lawmaker Ana Elisa Santos, born during Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first term, is now helping him draw up a social media master plan to nab a fourth mandate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Mom, in her way, had given me only one mandate for my year at Fullbrook: Make friends, James; you deserve them too.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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

While there has been community pushback to Zone 0 mandates, it’s mostly from a vocal minority, says Todd Lando, a battalion chief and wildfire hazard mitigation specialist with Central Marin Fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Under the strict mandates of the Windsor Framework, these regulatory shifts also mean heavy administrative and logistical costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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

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

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

The cancellation deepens a crisis over the region’s federally mandated homelessness functions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

These may be sold at price discounts as managers of longer-term funds are forced to sell before maturity in order to keep their portfolios’ durations above their own mandated levels.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Governing body the FIA said this was caused by a combination of the weather, low speed, the mandated wet-weather energy management settings and the circuit layout.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The federal government mandated high-stakes testing as part of the No Child Left Behind law, signed by President Bush in 2002.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

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

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 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

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