mandates
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Soybeans feed livestock and humans, but their oil also flows into an energy economy shaped by several decades of federal renewable-fuel mandates.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Texas once had renewable mandates but eliminated them.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
To date, almost all states have maintained their previous mandates or otherwise decoupled their policies from the federal recommendations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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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