mandates
Example Sentences
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The European Union sets mandates for 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%, 65%, 60%, 55% and 50%, covering everything from beverage containers and packaging materials to municipal rubbish.
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
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
Soybeans feed livestock and humans, but their oil also flows into an energy economy shaped by several decades of federal renewable-fuel mandates.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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
