mandate
Example Sentences
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As part of its mandate, the agency has examined and tried to improve the way it conducted identity verification or worked with customers online, on the phone and in person.
From MarketWatch
On Friday, the Justice Department released its first batch of files as mandated by Congress, including images of former President Bill Clinton and celebrities.
The justices have already dealt with the contraceptive mandate and the Little Sisters twice, and this latest challenge seems designed to irritate them.
Subsequent orders weakened federal workers’ labor protections External link, mandated agency reorganization External link plans, and restricted new hires External link to no more than one for every four workers who departed.
From Barron's
It had a challenging mandate: to develop top-line aircraft engines, a technology China had long struggled to master.
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