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The council extended the mandate of its independent special rapporteur on rights in Afghanistan for another year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

A failure to mandate safeguards is “completely irresponsible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Reaching the stage at which supervisors mandate terms is rare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

In his speech, ap Iorwerth will say the election "delivered a clear mandate from the people of Wales for positive change that makes a tangible difference to their lives".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Go out of the room; return to the nursery,” was her mandate.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

These mandates have helped draw growing quantities of domestic soybean oil toward biomass-based diesel production.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Texas once had renewable mandates but eliminated them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The sale agreement between Google and Spirit mandates that the data be “deidentified” to remove elements that would link the information to a consumer or otherwise be considered personal data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

These may be sold at price discounts as managers of longer-term funds are forced to sell before maturity in order to keep their portfolios’ durations above their own mandated levels.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

The agency said its available funding had fallen from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025, while the number of people it is mandated to protect is hovering around historically high levels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Tobacco companies have long complained that the agency’s review process is much slower than the roughly six months mandated by Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I would love to see them go much further - something mandated, a minimum on the pitch at any one time," the Guardian's Garry told BBC Women's Football Weekly.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

This was a radical departure from Fitzsimmons’s regular training practices, which mandated that exercise riders never use whips on their horses.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

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

A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond