Definition of MANDATING (original) (raw)

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Noun

Sports fans have considerable forbearance. Year after year they endure escalating ticket prices, the abomination known as seat licensing and the implied mandate that taxpayers should foot the bill for the new stadium or arena that will absolutely revive downtown. —Jack McCallum, Sports Illustrated, 30 July 2007 All provisions requiring congressional approval, such as FDA regulation, were dropped, as were mandates for stronger package warnings, tighter enforcement on sales to youth, stronger public smoking bans, and … provisions to reduce youth smoking. —Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century, 2007 Not the least of the Governors' problems are the new mandates being put on them by Washington—by a President who was once one of their own. —Karen Tumulty, Time, 19 May 2003

Royal mandates must be obeyed. They carried out the governor's mandate to build more roads. He won the election so convincingly that he believed he had been given a mandate for change. Verb

The carbon prices on the European exchanges are higher precisely because the allowances for carbon emissions are mandated by government. —Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006 But the FDA did nothing. Later, it protested that it doesn't have the authority to mandate additional studies once a drug is marketed, but that is sophistry. The FDA has the authority to pull drugs off the market … —Marcia Angell, New York Review of Books, 8 June 2006 For a few tantalizing weeks this spring, the manufacturers of gun safety locks seemed to have hit the jackpot: the gun-control bill passed by the Senate in the wake of the Littleton shootings mandated that all new handguns be equipped with safety locks. —Calvin Trillin, Time, 5 July 1999

The law mandates that every car have seat belts. He won the election so convincingly that he believed the people had mandated him to carry out his policies.

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In essence, the Fed has satisfied its dual mandate of keeping inflation and unemployment low. —Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024 The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) promotes bad land use policy, including mandates for inclusion of subsidized units or fees to pay for them, extremely harmful policies. —Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

There will possibly be California Attorney General Rob Bonta, best known for tough enforcement of state laws mandating huge amounts of dense new housing. —Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024 In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling stating that Alabama’s district map likely discriminated against Black voters and mandated redrawing the 2nd District. —Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mandate