government mandate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgovernmentandmandate
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government
noun
uk/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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mandate
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈmæn.deɪt/us/ˈmæn.deɪt/
the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern ...
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(Definition ofgovernmentandmandatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Each is necessary for agovernmentmandateto operate.
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The median mandate rests on a more subtle and extended argument than thegovernmentmandate.
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A first test for a realgovernmentmandatebeing conferred asks whether knowable and coherent electoral majorities are actually evident in practice.
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To check whether the conditions for agovernmentmandateare actually met, we do not need to look into each and every one of the conditions.
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Over the following fifteen years, it embraced private-sector solutions premised on agovernmentmandate that would require employers to pay a portion of their employees health insurance premiums.
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While perfectly good as a theory in itself, and omnipresent as a justification for democracy thegovernmentmandateseems irrelevant to the practical workings of contemporary democracies.
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I am not impressed by any allegation that this and that was not in agovernmentmandate.
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There's nogovernmentmandateto focus or issue an opinion on individual cases.
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In the paper, we argue that the fact that the government mandates a pension scheme that is not fully funded automatically creates an implicit liability.
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They both embraced individual rights in the face of arbitrarily imposed communal or government mandates.
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There was no top-down federalgovernmentmandate.
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For the first time, the federal government mandated a series of community-based alternatives to hospital care.
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Government mandated procedures for labour dispute resolution are currently very slow, with tens of thousands of cases pending for years.
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There is not a single standard set of specifications and as the government mandated standard becomes progressively more strict so does the definition.
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New laws have been implemented by the federal government mandating that all brokers have set pricing with the lenders they do business with.
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In 2000, the government mandated that the school needed a new student apartment and solicited donations due to tight education funding.
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If the regulators could increase incentives to ensure operators offer such services, the market instead of government mandates might lead to universally available broadband service.
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