The number of contracts secured by such businesses continues to be less than half the mandated number.
In addition, students received on average only half the mandated days of instruction because of vacation days and time lost to strikes.
Clearly it cannot be the UN, which can barely raise half its mandated complement of 8,000 peacekeepers, and spends almost half of its $600m annual budget just flying over Congo's vast, roadless forests.
In their indecision and anger at politics as usual, voters called into life something alien and unexpected: a British coalition government, with a confused, only half-understood mandate to fix the political system.
Ceferin has just a two-and-a-half-year mandate, owing to the untimely fall from grace of his predecessor, but insisted he would not be afraid to fight for the interests of smaller federations.
Of those affected by the employer mandate, half said they would cut employees' hours or replace full-time workers with part-time.
During the Conference of San Remo, two "A" mandates were created out of the old Ottoman province of Syria: the northern half (Syria and Lebanon) was mandated to France, the southern half (Palestine) to Great Britain.
The deliverymen, most of them immigrants from West Africa, accused Food Emporium of wage violations because they worked long hours, six or seven days a week, for half the federally mandated minimum wage.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells @PoppyHarlowCNN how he became a feminist, explains what he is doing to fight for pay equality and why he's mandated half his cabinet be women.
At their next meeting, which finishes on December 17th, the central bankers may drop that phrase or replace it with something vaguer.Bolstering employment is only half the Fed's mandate; its other duty is to keep inflation near 2%.
