mandates

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The agreement also mandates a legally enforceable whistleblower protection policy, a comprehensive Survivor Bill of Rights, anonymous online reporting, and a prohibition on confidentiality agreements that silence survivors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026

The influx of return-to-office mandates may have become more widespread since the pandemic because of employer skepticism about their remote employees’ performance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 27, 2026

“Staying in the emerging-market index will keep Indonesian stocks in global investment mandates, preventing a further wave of foreign capital outflows and providing a much-needed confidence boost,” Gavekal’s Miller and Sikand said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 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