mandate

"Has Burnham been given the electoral mandate to do it?" he asks.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

NEW YORK—New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said oil prices should eventually retreat and that inflation poses the larger risk to the Fed’s dual mandate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

This mandate could extend beyond merely managing the fund.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Nevertheless, job growth remained in positive territory, with the US Federal Reserve not expected to intervene on the labor side of its mandate.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Maybe there was a UN mandate that calling an animal endangered worked like clicking ruby slippers, and meant they’d have to drop everything and whisk us to safety.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

The EU’s latest Industrial Acceleration Act mandates local-content requirements in public procurement and subsidies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The agreement also mandates a legally enforceable whistleblower protection policy, a comprehensive Survivor Bill of Rights, anonymous online reporting, and a prohibition on confidentiality agreements that silence survivors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The influx of return-to-office mandates may have become more widespread since the pandemic because of employer skepticism about their remote employees’ performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 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

The settlement mandated that 22.5% of revenues generated by the so-called Power Five athletic conferences go to athletes at 310 Division I sports programs, working out to about $20.5 million per school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Historically, it has been up to Congress to oversee monetary policy through a semiannual hearing mandated by law.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

The SEC mandated semiannual reports in 1955 and quarterly reports, as Atkins said, in 1970.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

This represents just 2.7% of GDP by 2030, well short of the 3% mandated by Nato.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

There were six of them, mandated by Babulya: two that every family lit, plus one each for Mama, Aunt Tzivyah, Papa, and Anya.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

It said this includes mandating tech firms ban those who post scams and prevent them from creating new accounts, as well as those who impersonate real businesses.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Originally a state-owned enterprise, Air Canada remains legally bound by the country’s Official Languages Act, mandating bilingualism in its service and communications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

One point of mandating U.S. stock-market exposure with the funds is to give future generations buy-ins on America’s economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Just last week, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders fast-tracking quantum systems, mandating a research-ready quantum computer by 2028 and a government-wide migration to post-quantum cryptography by 2031.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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