mandatory
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Mandatory spending commitments severely constrain policymakers’ ability to respond to fiscal challenges.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
She rejects his claim, but only a few years later, after being forced out of her job as a social worker, begins a new life in Mandatory Palestine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The last Jews left Gaza City in 1929 during the riots that engulfed British-controlled Mandatory Palestine that year, ending a history shaped by the tragic events that plagued this repeatedly destroyed city.
From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025
Mandatory checks will begin in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands in early December before being extended worldwide in January.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025
England had intervened in Egypt as a self-constituted "Mandatory" of European financial interests.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
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