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Harding, 51, arguably has the least specific and most challenging mandate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

I would say that’s a pretty clear mandate and a good place to start.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

A training mandate for tax preparers would mean higher costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Burnham has said that any changes would require a mandate at a general election, which is next due by 2029.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The proposal defines a meaningful benchmark as “an investment, strategy, index, or other comparator that has similar mandates, strategies, objectives, and risks.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Countries, including Poland, Norway and the Netherlands, have mandated similar rules to "boost the economic benefit from defence procurement", the statement continued.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

Every one of the decisions that she made, we made sure that there was a smart, strategic, security mandated argument for doing what she was doing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Last month, the government rolled out austerity measures to conserve fuel, including a ban on official foreign travel, and mandated early market closures, as well as a new fuel subsidy for low-income groups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The federal government mandated high-stakes testing as part of the No Child Left Behind law, signed by President Bush in 2002.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

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

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