Although none of the key informants identified any formal mandates concerning how often their prenatal record should be reviewed, most reported that they conducted informal reviews of their prenatal record at least annually and organized a more extensive review of the prenatal record every three to five years.
Our mandate concerns individual criminal responsibility.
But this agency's core mandate concerns food safety, and even the union's environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said recently that it had not looked adequately at the long-term effects of biotech crops on issues like biodiversity.
Often the case is made that national interests in public health in developed countries mandate concern for infectious diseases that originate in developing countries.
"The UK wants to be, and is, an important international actor, and the government takes its responsibilities, as far as my mandate is concerned, seriously.
"I never thought I'd see the day when the White House, this president, came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold as far as this health care mandate is concerned," said Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader.
Diversity, a 'voluntary' concern as seen through the Anglo-Saxon lens, and discrimination, a 'legal' mandated concern as seen through the same lens, have simultaneously been gaining popularity in France since 2003.
That theological commitment, as it does in the USA's Declaration of Independence and in the world's Scriptures, mandates concern for the individual that sometimes supersedes the mechanism of market efficiency.
The president's solution, however, demonstrates that those still angry about the mandate aren't really concerned about religious freedom; they simply don't like birth control and want to reduce access to it.
Employers in industries with low-paid part-time workers are growing concerned that mandated paid sick days could become the norm rather than the exception, thanks to a raft of local legislation.
