Sentence examples for controversial mandate from inspiring English sources

And in addition to energizing Mr. Obama's critics on the right, the decision is reigniting a long-simmering debate on the left about whether he should have pushed for a government-run system to cover the uninsured, without the controversial mandate to buy insurance.

Case in point, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice (who tops the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women came under harsh criticism this past week for the State Department's controversial mandate requiring the identification chips in all U.S. passports by Oct. 6, 2006.

The most controversial mandate is a ban on new sales of semiautomatic rifles and pistols with detachable magazines by the end of the year, and a requirement that current owners of such weapons register them with the California Department of Justice by 2018.

Soon before her appearance in Times Square, Sotomayor issued an order that temporarily halted one of the most controversial mandates of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) from taking effect on Jan . 1

That's why there's the controversial individual mandate.

It was the headline day, when the court would devote two hours to the controversial insurance mandate.

Rick Perry took hits over immigration and his controversial HPV mandate at last night's Tea Party Express debate.

YESTERDAY Roger Vinson, a district court judge in Florida, ruled that Obamacare's controversial individual mandate is, as the federal government maintains, necessary for the law to function as intended, but that it is not proper, because it oversteps Congress' commerce-clause powers.

It also suggests that the smoggiest areas in the United States could reap unforeseen benefits from a controversial government mandate to reduce particule pollution.

Gov. Bob McDonnell, Potential VP Pick, Drops Controversial Ultrasound Mandate [Washington Post].

The Senate bill, like the House bill, would effectively eliminate the controversial individual mandate, under which people who decline to get health insurance pay a tax penalty.