Sentence examples for contested mandate from inspiring English sources

That includes controversies over legalizing same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the highly contested mandate in President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul that requires faith-based employers that are not houses of worship to provide free contraception to their employees as part of insurance plans.

Venezuela now faces a difficult period with a new president who must assert control with a small and contested mandate even as he addresses chronic problems of inflation, high crime rates, crumbling infrastructure and an over-reliance on oil exports.

Republicans ferociously contested his mandate on health care - and made political gains even while failing to block the legislation.

Virginia law mandates that only the contested race be recounted.

He swept to office with a big mandate, winning 126 of 272 contested seats in parliament in May 2013, making him the most powerful civilian leader for decades.

The contraceptive coverage mandate had become a hotly contested legal battleground since Obamacare passed in 2009 - with the Democratic administration aggressively pushing back against attempts to carve out sweeping religious exemptions to the women's health provisions of the law.

Leena Dallasheh spent Fall 2012 working on her book manuscript entitled Contested Citizenship in Nazareth: Palestinians' Transition from the Mandate to Israel.

Second, it could strike down the individual mandate portion of the law — the hotly contested provision that all Americans obtain health insurance or face fines — while keeping the rest of the law in place.

In 2016, the SEC proposed amendments to the proxy rules that would have mandated the use of universal proxy cards in contested elections, but, at the time of the proposal, opinions about universal proxies, both pro and con, were deeply held, and nothing came of the controversial proposal at least not yet.

The mandate for free contraceptive coverage was one of the most hotly contested Obama administration policies adopted under the Affordable Care Act, and it generated scores of lawsuits by employers that had religious objections to it.

A number of papers  were framed by issues currently being contested in  Congress and the courts, notably the issues of whether the individual mandate at the heart of the Obama health care plan is constitutional, and whether the children of undocumented aliens are citizens.