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mandate

[man-dayt] / ˈmæn deɪt /


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The US proposed extending Minurso's mandate for another year, but its draft went beyond the usual renewal.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

A training mandate for tax preparers would mean higher costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Johnston worries that the rapid buildup of the Salvadoran force will give it more power than the GSF, whose UN mandate is up for renewal in months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

DoorDash said they will not mandate exclusivity from grocers and retailers, allowing businesses to partner with any platform they choose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It has a mandate from Congress to control human disease.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The proposal defines a meaningful benchmark as “an investment, strategy, index, or other comparator that has similar mandates, strategies, objectives, and risks.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

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

Crop pickers were paid less than the federal minimum wage, had no access to toilets, no way to wash their hands, no mandated breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Schools like Da Vinci are where mandated personal-finance education can have the biggest impact in narrowing socioeconomic and racial wealth gaps, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

They are mandated by the Beauty Minister to look this way.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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 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

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


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