Sentence examples for instead of mandates from inspiring English sources

The Senate side is also using the word "standards" instead of "mandates".

The House members are careful to call their requirements for the states "minimum standards" instead of "mandates".

Nancy Gertner, a federal trial judge in Boston and an authority on federal sentencing, said Professor Freed had urged judges to reason among themselves and to produce a body of law that would transform the guidelines into recommendations instead of mandates.

Instead of the strict mandates our state needs, water agencies were asked to assume the drought would only last for three more years, and develop conservation "targets" (instead of mandates) based on that rosy assumption.

And instead of mandating attack-resistant cockpit doors, the F.A.A. required doors that could be forced open with a shove.

Instead of mandating that student outcome data be a part of teacher evaluation, it requires that test scores form the majority of any teacher evaluation system.

Instead of mandating higher efficiency, a more effective way of decreasing energy use is to increase its cost by taxing it.

"Reforms to the federal alternative fuels program could promote alternative fuels use instead of mandating purchase of vehicles that ultimately run on petroleum fuels," the report said.

Instead of mandating that states include certain kids on the public registry, they proposed that the law stipulate the opposite: that states failing to eliminate the practice of juvenile registration would fall afoul of federal law, and lose funds.

However, instead of mandating broadband access for all, Britain is currently considering a "three strikes" rule that would strip some people of their internet access if they are accused of illegally sharing files on the internet.

In the end, the budget team decided to cut the deficit in half by the end of Obama's first term, but, instead of mandating that it would continue to decline thereafter, as Spratt had demanded, promised that it would not rise above three per cent of G.D.P.