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mandate

[man-dayt] / ˈmæn deɪt /


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The ICC said it would not be deterred by the U.S. sanctions and will continue to fully discharge its mandate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The new rule reduces that mandate to 34.5 mpg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The council extended the mandate of its independent special rapporteur on rights in Afghanistan for another year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

In his speech, ap Iorwerth will say the election "delivered a clear mandate from the people of Wales for positive change that makes a tangible difference to their lives".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

For the West Computers, it was by mandate.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Under the strict mandates of the Windsor Framework, these regulatory shifts also mean heavy administrative and logistical costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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

These mandates have helped draw growing quantities of domestic soybean oil toward biomass-based diesel production.

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

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

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

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

"I would love to see them go much further - something mandated, a minimum on the pitch at any one time," the Guardian's Garry told BBC Women's Football Weekly.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

As part of its vote, the council also approved an amendment introduced by Councilmember Adrin Nazarian recommending the city attorney assess potential legal liabilities for mandating in-person training requirements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

In the late 2010s, local governments in China began mandating that power producers pair renewable projects with energy storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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


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