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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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That same mandate could also reopen the door to millions of acres of federal land that became off limits to hunters during the Biden Administration. —Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2025 What To Know Trump's RTO mandate will impact over 3 million federal employees, marking a major shift in workplace policy. —Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025

The study — mandated by the ongoing federal consent decree — has remained an elusive target for the Police Department. —Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025 Then, on Monday, the Trump administration mandated an unexpected federal funding pause across government agencies. —Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mandate