The Environmental Protection Agency, which administers the mandate, effectively increased the amount of ethanol required to be added to gasoline to 17.4 billion gallons this year, an annual increase of about 9percentt over 2015.
All sides agree that factors such as how the city has chosen to administer the national mandate and the culture of the local bureaucracy have so far trumped cycles in the economy in affecting the rolls.
This may be a first: A Long Island teacher has decided to refuse to administer the state's mandated Common Core-aligned test to students — and the superintendent of the district in which she works supports her.
Under the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, Austria-Hungary received the mandate to occupy and administer the Ottoman Vilayet of Bosnia while the Ottoman Empire retained official sovereignty.
During the war it was occupied by the British, who received a mandate to administer the greater part of it (Tanganyika Territory) by the Treaty of Versailles (signed June 1919; enacted January 1920).
Under the Treaty of Versailles (signed June 1919; enacted January 1920), Britain received a League of Nations mandate to administer the territory except for Ruanda-Urundi, which came under Belgian administration, and the Kionga triangle, which went to Portugal (see Quionga).
Mr. Highet began his 40-year career in international law as counsel to Liberia and Ethiopia, which argued before the international court beginning in 1963 that South Africa's policy of apartheid violated its 1920 League of Nations mandate to administer the former German colony of South-West Africa, now known as Namibia.
The process accelerated under the Iraqi monarchy set up by the British after World War I when the defeated Ottoman Empire, which had ruled Iraq since the 16th century, was dismantled and Britain, whose troops occupied Baghdad in 1917, was given a mandate to administer the country.
The mandate of UNMIK was to administer the province, while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional self-governing institutions.
The mandate, confirmed by the League of Nations in July 1922, gave the British virtually a free hand in administering the territory.
But only 27 percent would keep the mandate.
