mandate
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However, it also highlighted its dual mandate of price stability and full employment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The US proposed extending Minurso's mandate for another year, but its draft went beyond the usual renewal.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Burnham has said that any changes would require a mandate at a general election, which is next due by 2029.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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
Our mandate now was to share it with the rest of the country.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Licensing, testing mandates and the regulatory machinery surrounding them impose costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
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
The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
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
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
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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