An earlier mandate by the Air Resources Board to cut tailpipe emissions of heat-trapping gases was effectively vetoed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency in December.
Instead of relying on this, he was obsessed with winning an early mandate of his own.A big mistake: the voters now look unlikely to give him a mandate worth having.
Its early mandate was simple if Sisyphean: to compile, using a hulking I.B.M. mainframe computer, a collective database of holdings that could be used at specially designated terminals in museums, universities and libraries.
It has been working for many months now to revamp its Web site, which will relaunch in the summer, and the departments of the museum are on their way to meeting an early mandate of Mr. Campbell's to ensure that an online record exists for every object in the collection — more than 1.6 million of them.
Clubs had generally been adhering to an earlier order mandating that players 23 and under be released for the Olympics.
Pinochet permitted no meaningful political opposition, but he fulfilled his constitutional obligation to hold the plebiscite scheduled, which took place earlier than mandated, in October 1988.
They said that nothing in the text of the federal law, its purpose or the court's earlier cases mandated a numerical-majority requirement.
"We are reaching out to large employer groups, asking them to open their plans earlier than mandated and make this coverage available," Ms. Sebelius said at a news conference.
But the law of narrative (and the law of desire, to cite one of his early titles) mandates trouble, and Harry's curious English pseudonym, evoking both "The Third Man" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," is a premonition of lurking shadows.
The early state mandates may have contributed to the expansion of Medicare's coverage of diabetes in 1997 [ 7].
