mandates

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The first executive order targets a powerful quantum computer by 2028; the second mandates post-quantum cryptography by 2031.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

From the Andes to Central America, new leaders are taking power with populist mandates centered on free-market economic policies and iron-fisted security strategies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Lumsden is to resign as North East MSP now that he has been elected for Aberdeen South because there is a Holyrood ban on dual mandates.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

“Cities may not like it, but the state mandates make sense.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 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