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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mandate is a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining what a mandate is in a specific context.
Example: "In legal terms, a mandate is a directive issued by an authority to enforce compliance."
Alternatives: "a mandate refers to" or "a mandate denotes".
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A mandate is a command.
Anyone who says Obama doesn't have a mandate is a fool, or flat-out deluded".
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And as a result, Massachusetts' mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me, and so it stays as it was," Romney said Wednesday in an interview with CBS News.
"If a mandate was a solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house," Obama says in one of the clips from 2008.
So, the individual mandate is a bit of a sham.
Justice Scalia hounds him to explain the central issue of how an individual mandate is a unique need for private health insurance markets – who's to say there'll never be a federal broccoli mandate, huh? is conservatives' favorite little twee hypothetical to use here.
"[O]n the whole it would've made sense to defer to the Romney camp's original view that the mandate is a penalty not a tax that the Court should have struck down", Mr Beutler rightly maintains.
Corporations such as Atlanta-based Southern Company and Charlotte-based Duke Energy hold firm that a renewable mandate is a state issue, not a federal one.
The mandate is a tool, a mechanism, a means to an end - not the end itself.
I want my living amends to produce a permanent change in behavior, yet I find a lifetime mandate is a little too much.
Hollins' mandate is a bit different.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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