We are prone to think of this as an event — causal relation, in which God issues a kind of command, and the command in turn produces the mandated effect.
In this model a ruler accepts the job of commanding a country as mandated by the gods, but does so with moral and ethical constraints to nurture and better the populace, to improve the lot and circumstances of the population, and to foster agricultural plenty, military peace, cultural richness, and social accord.
For more than two decades, environmental law and regulation was dominated by command-and-control approaches -- typically either mandated pollution control technologies or inflexible discharge standards on a smokestack-by-smokestack basis.
Payroll tax caps help, but senior executives can command contributions over and above mandated requirements because companies are loath to let successful key executives jump a competitor in a market as difficult as China's.
Nothing.Yet all this happened seven years ago; everyone has known the basic facts for all those years; and everyone knew, broadly, why it happened because the Dutch soldiers were far too few, and neither properly armed nor supported, even if they had been strongly mandated, motivated and commanded, to resist the Serb soldiery.
Decisions are not made in accordance with the rule of equity but by command, for thousands of years by him who was mandated by heaven and then, during the last 60 years, by the Party.
Even more alarming to Parliament was James's use of his dispensing power to allow Roman Catholics to command several regiments without having to take the oath mandated by the Test Act.
FDR mandated this unsung band of heroes while Eisenhower was in command.
Unlike command-and-control regulations, which may directly limit discharges into the environment, mandated environmental assessments protect the environment indirectly by increasing the quantity and quality of publicly available information on the environmental consequences of contemplated actions.
Likewise, in the Old Testament, examples exist in which the laws mandated that believers commit an act that went against what their faith commanded them to do.
