In an interview, the commission's chairman, Phil Angelides, said the panel was struggling to satisfy a broad mandate to examine the role of 22 factors in bringing about the crisis.
G.M. built the car largely to satisfy a 1990 mandate from the California Air Resources Board requiring that two per cent of an automaker's sales in the state meet zero-emission standards by 1998, and ten per cent by 2003.
Since then, losses have slowed to about 150 acres annually, but still have not satisfied a state mandate to reverse the process and actually boost wetland acreage.
Wearing my conservative hat, I have to say that it's wrong to disrupt the lives of communities, schools, families, and children to satisfy an absurd federal mandate, based on a false premise and based too on the non-existent "Texas miracle".
By going overboard to achieve a "balanced jury," he acted more like a politician with a mandate to satisfy ethnic constituencies than an impartial judge.
Jellicoe and the Motorola RAZR team emphasized producing a groundbreaking product that would be beautiful as well as practical, while the polymer developers had a mandate to satisfy their customers' needs as quickly and effectively as they could.
To satisfy Obama's concerns about affordability, DeParle recommended that he adopt a mandate like the one Romney signed into law, which included a hardship exemption for those who still couldn't afford insurance.
The SEC, based on its own investigation as well as a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on trends in Regulation A offerings, has proposed Regulation A+ to satisfy its mandate.
So Greene said he would satisfy the mandate by running only the first round here, but no semifinals or final.
In doing so, our fundamental approach and stance is to give the highest priority to customers' safety and convenience....we provide and create products that satisfy the mandate of the times - in conserving the environment and in existing in harmony with nature....I do not know when we learned about this problem.
