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mandates

  • plural of mandate.
  • present tense form of mandate (3rd person singular).

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Mandates for the CRAs would include establishing a financial assistance fund to help property owners cover funding gaps, and creating a privately operated center for coordinating planning, permitting and inspections under one roof.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

Mandates exist at youth levels in the U.S.,

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Mandates do appear to have led to an increase in vaccinations.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

The legislative panel — the joint Committee on Government Overreach and the Impact of COVID-19 Mandates — heard a day of testimony, most of it from critics of the mandates.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Mrs. Wicksell gained international fame when her Government appointed her a delegate to the League of Nations meeting at Geneva in 1920-21 and she was placed on the Mandates Commission.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted