mandate
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From September, schools cannot mandate more than three uniform items to have school branding.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even with this mandate, private credit could offer valuable financing opportunities for borrowers and attractive long-term assets for insurers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Mr. Warsh says he sees signs investors are confident the Fed will achieve its price-stability mandate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The effort to mandate stormwater permits has been discussed in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Our mandate now was to share it with the rest of the country.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered remarks via video call to support newly proposed cleanup mandates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Nor is there any government policy implementing the act that mandates transgender management.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Guidelines were turned into mandates and banks couldn’t even open an ATM, much less acquire another bank, if they didn’t receive a passing grade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
That premium is justified because some large institutional investors cannot easily buy South Korea-listed common shares and are required by their investment mandates to hold only U.S.-listed securities, Kim added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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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Lawmakers were denied entry when they tried to perform their mandated oversight duties at immigrant detention facilities.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Our ministry has mandated the compulsory use of life jackets, and we have supplied them in thousands to riverine states," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Historically, it has been up to Congress to oversee monetary policy through a semiannual hearing mandated by law.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Analyst target prices on SpaceX flooded in Tuesday after the end of a mandated quiet period in the wake of its blockbuster IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Last month, Bass issued orders mandating Lineage remove all food waste within 45 days and mobilizing resources to assist the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The confusion that ensued became a "catalyst" for modern regulations mandating better flotation equipment on planes and preflight briefings on how to use it, aviation safety expert John Cox told AP.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
One point of mandating U.S. stock-market exposure with the funds is to give future generations buy-ins on America’s economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
President Donald Trump signed two directives on Monday mandating the creation of a research-grade quantum computer by 2028 and accelerating the government’s shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2031.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 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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