mandate
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The Safer Skies Act expanded that mandate to roughly 18,000 law-enforcement agencies and 6,000 correctional facilities across the country.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
Attorney General Dawda Jallow was quoted as saying that Hackett had a four-year mandate and was chosen from a wide selection of candidates.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
“It’s not just the index inclusion, it makes the stock ownable by the large number of investors whose mandate does not allow them to invest in companies on the Euronext,” he added.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
It is a mandate no other attorney general has been willing or able to fulfill successfully.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing mandate
"My Wonder Horse," Vocabulary from the short story
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