Sentence examples for impose a mandate from inspiring English sources

PAGE B1 ENERGY GOALS CAN POSE CHALLENGE Congress and the incoming administration may soon impose a mandate that the nation get 10 or 15percentt of its electricity from renewable sources within a few years.

The President's Proposal is consistent with the Senate bill in that it does not impose a mandate on employers to offer or provide health insurance, but does require them to help defray the cost if taxpayers are footing the bill for their workers.

As his call for the referendum occurred after the proposals had been proffered and rejected, precisely what that invocation of "popular will" could not do was to impose a mandate on the negotiations or on the opposing negotiators.

This is arguably down to the law, which imposes a mandate on national and local government to ensure a minimum of 30% of seats are held by women.

When Benioff founded it, in 1999, he imposed a mandate that he called the "1 1 1 model": one per cent of the company's equity, profits or product, and employee time were earmarked for philanthropy.

The play takes place in the conference room of a small television production company in London, where a new boss (who is never seen) has imposed a mandate for groundbreaking shows and has already trimmed his staff of those who can't fulfill it.

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

H.R. 10, The "REINS Act," would adversely impact how necessary and beneficial rules are promulgated by imposing a mandate requiring all new major regulations to be affirmatively approved by both Houses of Congress and signed by the president within 70 days before they can take effect.

Using a popular Republican refrain, Democrats said they were appalled that Republicans were so eager to usurp the rights of local government and impose a federal mandate on school districts.

Senators of both parties said President Clinton was apparently trying to impose a new mandate on the states without offering them any money to carry out the task of tabulating and analyzing thousands of error reports from hospitals.

It looked at 21 of the richest countries in the world, and found that only one, the US, does not impose a legal mandate on employers to provide time off.