The phrase "a host of mandates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a large number of commands, requirements, or directives that need to be followed or addressed.
Example: "The new policy introduced a host of mandates that all employees must comply with to ensure workplace safety."
Alternatives: "a multitude of directives" or "a range of requirements".
A host of mandates flowed from centres of government, seeking to promote an ethic of order, productivity, and morality by shaping working and domestic activities as well as private habits and attitudes.
Without effective support, we can't expect folks with limited job skills to find employment, feed their families and face a host of mandates that challenge their ability to improve themselves.
If the Office of Management and Budget were to take O'Malia up on his suggestion, it would radically change the way some federal regulations are written and severely hamper implementation of a host of rules mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
It also mandates a host of transparency rules, saying government agency Web sites must post an accounting each quarter of all conferences, total cost of attendance and support, sponsorships, locations, and details of non-federal attendees.
First, it is a less expensive, more efficient and more effective policy than the status quo: EPA regulation via the Clean Air Act and a host of green energy subsidies and mandates.
The new Commission would come with subpoena power, a $3 million budget, and the mandate to investigate a host of issues ranging from Guantanamo, to torture, to extraordinary rendition.
This workload includes mandating independent monitoring of a host of human rights challenges.
At that point, both vaccines would have become available immediately even without mandates through private insurance and a host of programs designed to assure universal access to childhood vaccines.
But Dr. Dianne Murphy, associate director of the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, says that for a host of ethical, scientific and economic reasons, the agency has not mandated drug research on children, until now.
Women, we are told, become suicide bombers out of despair, mental illness, religiously mandated subordination to men, frustration with sexual inequality and a host of other factors related specifically to their gender.
Those stunts were rendered illegal, as were a host of other consumer-unfriendly practices, while minimal benefits such as pregnancy coverage were mandated. .
