Sentence examples for disputed mandate from inspiring English sources

By implication these same justices are saying -- and may, in fact, rule later this spring -- that, while the feds lack power to impose the disputed mandate, state governments do not.

But these critics wrongly correlate resignation of a prime minister with a disputed mandate to derailment of a democracy that, thus far, has only worked for two families over the past few decades.

There was no puffing, sipping or page turning by Piniella, just a valiant and futile attempt to dispute the obvious mandate for the Mariners.

"The Obama administration on Friday offered a vigorous defense of the Affordable Care Act's 'birth control mandate,' disputing as unfounded the religious challenge that led a Supreme Court justice to partially block the provision from taking effect this week.

OF course, the most hotly disputed part of the law is its "mandate" provision.

What is being disputed here is Congress's right to mandate the purchase of a good or service.

India managed to scuttle the notion that India, and hence disputed Kashmir, should be part of the mandate of Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama's "AfPak" envoy.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who wrote the majority opinion, disputed that interpretation, emphasizing that the decision addressed only the contraceptive mandate, not other types of insurance-coverage mandates.

The expensive subsidies and the mandate to buy insurance are two of the most hotly disputed elements of the law.

But its interpretation is disputed: the DPJ's leader, Ichiro Ozawa, has long believed, quasi-religiously, that only the United Nations can mandate military operations abroad.

The implications are complicated and disputed, but it is clear that EU leaders did not have burning American wood in mind when they mandated that 20% of Europe's energy should come from "renewable" sources.