The phrase "although the mandates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or exception regarding mandates in a discussion or argument.
Example: "Although the mandates were strict, many companies found ways to adapt and thrive."
Alternatives: "even though the mandates" or "despite the mandates".
Although the mandates may seem overly ambitious to some, other major urban school districts, including Miami-Dade and Chicago, have been able to meet them, says Carly Wright of the Society of Health and Physical Educators.
One possible explanation is that annual eye and foot exams, unlike SMBG, require more effort from health providers than from the patients, and state mandates do not directly affect providers' practice pattern, although the mandates reduced the burden of filing paperwork claiming authorization[ 24].
Although the mandate does not require firms to spend on CSR, we find that mandatory CSR reporting firms experience a decrease in profitability subsequent to the mandate.
Although the mandate could increase power costs by forcing utilities to use more expensive technologies to generate electricity, it would not require direct spending from the government.
Furthermore, although the mandate is called a "penalty" rather than a "tax" in the PPACA, Congress is nevertheless within its taxing power to impose it, because the mandate is functionally equivalent to a tax but not to a penalty.
Although the mandate specified that fortification should be in place by no later than January 1998, in practice most large food companies commenced fortification in early 1996.
Loren Adler, an analyst at the Brookings Institution, said that although repealing the mandates would create some serious problems, it would not be sufficient to destroy the insurance exchanges, because the continued availability of the federal subsidies would prevent the number of enrollees from falling too far.
The relatively large positive impact in the first five years under the mandates, although not statistically significant, plunges to negative values in the following years.
Although the law mandates that incarcerated juveniles have no contact with adult prisoners, the same protections do not apply to youths who have been prosecuted as adults.
And Jonathan Burman, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Education, says that although the state mandates a 180-day school year, local districts have flexibility in setting the schedule.
Although 87.9percentt of the mandated students enrolled in summer school, daily attendance hovered around 78percentt, board officials said.
