mandate
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Its mandate was first expanded after a 2015 migration crisis when more than one million people arrived in Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
It extended the offer just as it imposed a new mandate requiring workers to be in the office five days a week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Despite the study's adherence to its mandate, its findings were sidelined."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Malcolm Offord said Amanda Bland did not have a "personal mandate" to stay in the Scottish Parliament after she resigned from Reform to sit as an independent.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Livermore’s nebulous mandate was an ideal fit for Lawrence’s scheme.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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When mandates are in place, both women and men take the classes, she added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
It mandates that owners of the nearly 200 horses would not be allowed to sell them for slaughter or for the purposes of other horse-carriage businesses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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
They are both members of the north Atlantic defence alliance, which mandates members to defend a fellow member-nation should they be attacked.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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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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
Governing body the FIA said this was caused by a combination of the weather, low speed, the mandated wet-weather energy management settings and the circuit layout.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
Moscow has mandated that businesses take steps to protect themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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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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
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
In July, a federal judge ordered ICE to institute sweeping changes at the Adelanto center, mandating improvements in the provision of water, food, sanitation and medical care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In New Hampshire and Michigan, parents have had success increasing recess in some schools and are pushing for state laws mandating it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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