Sentence examples for mandate before from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama had vehemently opposed an individual mandate before his election in 2008.

Senator Orrin Hatch, of Utah, who supported the mandate before he opposed it, shrugs off his party's change of heart.

Mr Kiir has since said he will serve the rest of his mandate before elections that had been due in 2015.

Another senior official noted that Mr. Obama himself initially opposed the individual mandate, before concluding that it would help curb cost increases in health care.

Golda Meir once said that the only government that Haaretz ever supported was the British Mandate, before the birth of the state.

Other issues are whether Congress can broaden Medicaid coverage of the poor and taxpayers can even challenge the individual mandate before it takes effect in 2014.

Even Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate's Republican majority leader, when asked if he believed the report brought state leaders any closer to meeting the court's mandate than before, flatly said, "No".

Mr. Cuomo needs to do a sweep of the extraneous mandates before imposing a tax cap on local communities.

Nursing homes and other health care facilities awaited reimbursements totaling millions of dollars for evacuations mandated before Tropical Storm Irene.

The Danish system, in which the Folketing (parliament) agrees to ministers' negotiating mandates before they go to Brussels, is a good example.

His continuing support for budget items (some mandated before his election) that cut Planned Parenthood funding by more than a million dollars in the past decade and limited access to S.T.D. testing in poorer communities has been blamed in part for a serious H.I.V. outbreak in southern Indiana.