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Zelaya said she received an email in the fall from administrators saying the school was mandating changes in colors, fonts and other aspects of email to help the school maintain branding consistency.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023

Stephanie Elizalde, the superintendent of Austin Independent School District wrote in an essay for Time that she was mandating masks because the situation in the city is “dire.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2021

Last week, the city had announced it was mandating vaccinations or weekly testing for workers in the city’s hospital system.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

While saying Roethlisberger was going beyond what the league was mandating, Goodell did not cut his suspension for bad behavior to four games.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010

He was little with us, and, as I said, the house was still, except when he was mandating his sermons for Sabbath.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John