Sentence examples for but mandated from inspiring English sources

Water at Cairo, he noted, was reaching levels that all but mandated blowing up the levee.

By the century's end, state legislatures had all but mandated that couples obtain a license to marry.

By the nineteen-nineties, the government had all but mandated that more loans be made to people once considered too risky.

The bill provided hundreds of millions of dollars to enhance existing fencing and to reinforce levees on both sides but mandated a three-mile gap.

The technologies and conventions of the time all but mandated such staging, and anyway, "with time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind".

For the Mets to go farther this season -- to reach the World Series, which was all but mandated by the owner Fred Wilpon in spring training -- it will help if Piazza is rested.

But mandating uniformity, if it sounds good, creates a different kind of unfairness.

Current rules in Pennsylvania permit acceptance of gifts but mandate disclosure on state-filed reports.

But mandating equal pay for equal work is unlikely to make much of a difference.

In November 2007, both voted for a bill authorizing $50 billion in war financing but mandating troop withdrawals.

But mandate that standard, and economies of scale immediately send the price plummeting.