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mandate

[man-dayt] / ˈmæn deɪt /


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The new rule reduces that mandate to 34.5 mpg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Higher crude oil prices could also boost palm oil demand for biodiesel, while Indonesia’s B50 biodiesel mandate is expected to provide additional structural support, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The nearby Irkutsk Aluminum Factory, which is located in the same town and employs more than 2,000 people, has imposed a masking mandate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Work is similarly under way to improve Europe's early warning system with plans under discussion including reinforcing the mandate of the bloc's border agency Frontex to conduct social media monitoring.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Since some of the other students chose to grow beards and mustaches, his own beard was sometimes interpreted as a personal choice instead of a mandate of faith.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

It mandates that immigrant and other detainees are afforded privacy, safety, hygienic living conditions and other rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It introduces a slew of reforms aimed at strengthening the electric grid and mandates that data centers pay for all of their associated transmission costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Texas once had renewable mandates but eliminated them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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

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

“Unlike lifesaving, and mandated, technologies like air bags, seat belts, electronic stability control and headlights, analog AM radio does not contribute to motor vehicle safety,” Bozzella said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

When Congress passed legislation mandating disclosure of foreign gifts to colleges and universities, it didn’t include the names of individual donors as part of what is to be released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

Four states — California, Delaware, Colorado and Hawaii — are now mandating that students take a semester-long personal-finance course before graduating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

They also house blood samples taken from most infants born in the United States since the late sixties, when states started mandating the screening of all newborns for genetic diseases.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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