Tim Griffin

The health care law's individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law's changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.

American Politician

Mike Crapo

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Yuval Noah Harari

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

Israeli Historian

Heather Mac Donald

It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on the basis of race only by discriminating on the basis of race.

American Editor

Ben Bernanke

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

American Public Servant

Brad Pitt

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

Actor

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

German Politician

Jose Angel Gurria

The OECD should promote everything that's consistent with its mandate, which is to make the world economy work better.

Mexican Economist

Michele Bachmann

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

Fatos Nano

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

Albanian Statesman

Suggests someone powerful, like a leader, gave the orders.

Hierarchy Implication

Implies the order must be followed; it's not optional.

Strong Connotation

Rooted in public choice, reflecting people's will.

Democratic Basis

Can apply to one or many individuals, like a leader or a party.

Change Plurality

When used as a verb, it often relates to laws or regulations.

Legislative Action

Creates an urgent need to obey the command.

Immediate Obligation

Refers to a period when territories were managed by external powers.

Historical Context

Highlights the control aspect rather than collaborative supervision.

Control Aspect

 It's not just about adventure. It's not just about culture. It's about how we as a human family are impacting everything, and only through pushing my own boundaries as a storyteller and having that insatiable curiosity could I continue to do that. What does it look like when we mandate a way of life is different from something

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 Hearing the news, Frigg became so overjoyed that she transformed the mistletoe from a symbol of death into one of peace and love. She mandated a one-day truce for all fights, and that everyone embrace beneath its branches when they passed to spread more love into the world.

Why do we kiss under...

 mandated in the Constitution and the way we do it has resulted over time in the existence in the United States of to really large political parties okay two really large political parties that's what we're accustomed to here that's not what happens all over the world of

Why political...

 while complying with the isolation mandates. Bill, I really want to thank you for spending this time with us and for the financial investment, the time investment. You've really invested your life into trying to solve these big problems. And this is as big as they get.

How we must respond to...

 or that we mandate any particular way of dying. There are mountains of sorrow that cannot move, and one way or another, we will all kneel there. Rather, I am asking that we make space -- physical, psychic room, to allow life to play itself all the way out --

What really matters at...

 and you won't get to shape it and enjoy it quite that same way. And so without -- we don't want to mandate it, but yes, both you and I want to inspire philanthropists to see that passion, to see those opportunities significantly faster than in the past,

How the pandemic will...

 But while the king was initially popular among his subjects, his labor mandates were an uncomfortable reminder of the slavery Haitians fought to destroy. Over time, his increasingly authoritarian policies lost support,

The first and last king...

 The election comes around, but before the results can be certified a third party candidate swoops in and burns the treefellow to a crisp. The freshly signed and deeply flawed constitution mandates that this challenger

Can you solve the...

 But let's be diversity and inclusion are not the same things. Diversity is a numbers game. Inclusion is about impact. Companies can mandate diversity, but they have to cultivate inclusion.

How to get serious about...

 and convinced politicians that such policies would raise energy costs and threaten jobs. These obstacles led the government to delay changes, and mandate further research into the issue.

Mandate

An official order or instruction given by a person in power.

Often appears as...

The authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern.

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To officially order someone to do something.

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A group of countries officially assigned to a foreign power to administer it.

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Hierarchy Implication

Strong Connotation

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