And unlike the blackouts, it is not merely a temporary unpleasantness mandated from on high.
(These existing pools should not be confused with the temporary pools mandated by ObamaCare).
Set up in 1949 with a temporary, three-year mandate to provide aid and jobs for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA has survived for almost 60 years, expanding its scope, budget and influence by extending refugee status to descendants of its beneficiaries.
He said the aid for those assigned to temporary housing was mandated by law following the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
In addition, costs are mitigated or offset due to union contracts, the policy's application to only certain properties, Hilton's current partially paid maternity leave policy for certain positions, as well as the fact that in certain states there is a certain level of mandated temporary disability benefits.
The court also granted Wheaton College, a small Christian school in Illinois, a temporary exemption from the mandate, suggesting justices could issue a broader blow to the mandate if the Obama administration did not tweak the law.
Like its predecessor organization, the UN Relief for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, it was originally designed as a temporary agency, though its mandate has been continuously renewed by the General Assembly.
In a letter published in The Financial Times on Friday, José Graziano da Silva, the director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationn, wrote: "An immediate, temporary suspension of that mandate would give some respite to the market and allow more of the crop to be channeled toward food and feed uses".
The Supreme Court decided this year that companies like Hobby Lobby can opt out of paying for their employees' contraceptives -- and gave groups like the Little Sisters a temporary reprieve from the mandate while their case moves through the courts.
Montrose Collection Restaurant and Banquet Hall had already been forced to stop operations late last month when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge granted the city's request for a temporary injunction, a court mandate to stop violations of municipal code.
