mandate
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The increase will take effect from the first sitting day of the new assembly mandate next May, under draft proposals by Stormont's Independent Remuneration Board.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Automakers oppose the mandate, citing interference from electric vehicle motors and an estimated $3.8 billion cost to mitigate the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Everybody can see that we have been cooperating successfully for the last four years. The same four partners that now jointly seek the mandate to continue for the coming years," Kristersson said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Florida also has no renewable mandate and continues adding solar rapidly.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The patrols increased in size, as did their mandate.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
"International courts and tribunals must be able to freely carry out their mandates," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
While early journal entries chronicle profound uncertainties regarding viral origins and transmission dynamics, public mandates were treated as absolute, unquestionable truths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
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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
National Climate Assessments are Congressionally mandated reports composed by hundreds of scientists and researchers and have been published every four years since 1990.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Known as “direct admissions,” this expedited process is free and omits required essays, questions about extracurriculars and mandated standardized tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Medicaid estate recovery has been a mandated federal policy since 1993, set up primarily to recoup rising costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
They are mandated by the Beauty Minister to look this way.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
As part of its vote, the council also approved an amendment introduced by Councilmember Adrin Nazarian recommending the city attorney assess potential legal liabilities for mandating in-person training requirements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
When Congress passed legislation mandating disclosure of foreign gifts to colleges and universities, it didn’t include the names of individual donors as part of what is to be released.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
That research, and other investigations like it, led to changes in air traffic regulations, mandating minimum distances between flight paths so as to prevent that kind of wake turbulence accident.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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