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
A training mandate for tax preparers would mean higher costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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
He has since outlined a number of ambitions, which has led some to question whether he will try to secure a fresh mandate before 2029.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The police had blocked off the street; the crowd’s response to the speeches urging an end to the British mandate and the establishment of a Jewish state had been overwhelming.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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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
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
She worried about the route that authorities had mandated for the demonstration in Paris, pointing out that parts of it were "extremely narrow" and that it passed by a gas station.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
It also mandated returning emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 — a target California met six years ahead of schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The mandated list of occupants clings to its front door.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Title IX is a federal civil rights law mandating that universities follow certain rules when investigating sexual assaults.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ohio’s legislature also passed a new law mandating chip cards for benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
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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