Sentence examples for adopt a mandate from inspiring English sources

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.

However, in a rush to adopt a mandate for the new body, the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly abandoned safeguards that would have prevented the new council from being dominated, as it is now, by a coalition of human rights violators.

Koon's death, sealed by the inability of rescuers to track cell phones in emergencies, was exactly the kind of tragedy that prompted the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a mandate called e911 (the "e" stands for "enhanced") in 1996.

More recently, the European Union has adopted a mandate compelling each member country to substitute 10% of all transport fuels for biofuels by 2020 [ 2, 4].

Now, with Congress poised to adopt a new mandate that would double the volume of ethanol made from corn, ethanol skeptics say a fateful moment has arrived, with the nation about to commit itself to decades of competition between food and fuel for the use of agricultural land.

This created one of the most stable currencies in the world - and Germany insisted that the Bundesbank's successor, the ECB, should adopt a similar mandate and also be based in Frankfurt.

This would make California the fourth state to adopt an individual mandate with a penalty; Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont already have such a policy in law.

The left-of-centre Social Liberal Forum SLFF) wants the Coalition to adopt a new "fiscal mandate" and to order the Bank of England to do more to boost growth and jobs.

It also came less than two weeks before the next round of protests, which are expected when the local legislature seeks to adopt a new framework mandated by Beijing for future elections in the semiautonomous territory.

The Consultative Peace Jirga of June 2010 was an expression of national consensus and gave a mandate to adopt a "whole of the state" and "whole of government" path to national renewal.

Among this group, Kaniela Ing, a state representative running in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, stands out as a candidate from the only state so far to adopt a 100percentt renewable energy mandate.