mandate
Example Sentences
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McLelland, who founded the National Association of Player Welfare Officers, said she believed "mandated areas of responsibility and a prescribed modus operandi should be put in place in each and every club".
From BBC
They are overseen by state insurance commissioners, who lack the resources and broader mandate of federal bank regulators.
Stella McGinn said she would be "angry" if improved bus safety laws were not passed within this assembly mandate.
From BBC
They argued that the government had not made a tender offer, as mandated by Argentine law, to these two companies, which were YPF's second- and third-largest investors.
From Barron's
“These micromanagerial consent decrees mandate training and other things that go well beyond the scope of the statutes we enforce,” she says.
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