mandate
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But he could have done more, as I suggested back in June in another of our informative, effervescent conversations, to build a mandate and also to prepare California voters for the rough road ahead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
“Every company has an ethics mandate, and Nvidia is no exception to that.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
The brutally angular design was rumored to have sprung directly from the mind of Musk himself, with the mandate to the Tesla design team to make it so.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Throughout this campaign, we asked shareholders to give us the mandate to restore accountability, revitalize the business and return Ethan Allen to profitable growth,” Bergeron said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Papua New Guinea, as Yali’s nation is now called, was at that time still administered by Australia as a mandate of the United Nations, but independence was in the air.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The judge is expected to decide if Wong's offence is of a "grave nature", and if so, the security law mandates a prison stint of between 10 years and life.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
When mandates are in place, both women and men take the classes, she added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The letter signed by the three former employees claims they didn’t believe they “engaged with external parties outside the mandates of our jobs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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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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
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
Now she often hears about a mandated ratio of sober party attendees for every event, typically one for every 25 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The cancellation deepens a crisis over the region’s federally mandated homelessness functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The state also does not have a law in place mandating runoff elections.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 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
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
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
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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