mandate
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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
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
Washington, Minnesota, Oregon, Maryland and Virginia have passed similar versions, and Florida upgraded its law with a 2026 mandate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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
I mainly took this as a mandate to overperform, to do everything I possibly could to keep up with or even plow past the more privileged people around me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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As the new federal mandates seek to shed light on some sources of revenue, PBMs are pivoting to new ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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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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
The 30-day yields are calculations mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for investors to use when comparing funds’ dividend yields.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 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
The cancellation deepens a crisis over the region’s federally mandated homelessness functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
He had disrupted commencement ceremonies by deliberately wearing a gold cap and gown, and the principal had threatened to bar him unless he changed into the mandated blue ones.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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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
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
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
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