Sentence examples for mandate upon from inspiring English sources

Guaranteed issue is a mandate upon health insurers to offer health insurance to anyone willing to pay the quoted premium.

As I have explained in detail in several earlier posts, forcing upon private insurers a mandate of community rating and guaranteed issue will not work, unless accompanied by a mandate upon all citizens to have at least a minimally adequate health insurance policy with specified benefit coverage.

Even Mitt Romney — at heart a Republican technocrat (and the only candidate I've ever seen give a campaign speech with PowerPoint) — talks as if the main role of the president is to grant waivers from any kind of mandate upon the states.

Others, however, are likely to consider the withholding of unpatented patient data to hinder rather than 'to promote the progress of science and useful arts,' the Constitutional mandate upon which the US patent system is founded.

Republicans have been set against putting any new regulations or mandates upon businesses, and they're not about to make it easier for workers to sue their employers.

He was in and at his own home, as the law has doctrinally defined as his castle, a unique place that provides safe harbor and from where retreat is not legally mandated upon certain threat.

Often the "opening" of the Inward Light is a "concern" for the sufferings of others and a mandate laid upon the conscience to take action to alleviate that suffering.

Consensual contracts needed nothing except verbal or written agreement between the parties, and though there were only four such contracts known to the law, they were the most important in ordinary life sale, hire of things or services, partnership, and mandate (acting upon instructions).

In the last 10 years, Turkey has been healing through the democratic mandate bestowed upon my party.

"If voters mandate this upon us, we're going to be reactionary," Edwards said of the potential amendment.

As the postal service bleeds millions in losses -- mostly due to unique funding mandates placed upon it by Congress -- Sanders has staunchly opposed the closure of postal facilities and cuts in postal service, such as Saturday delivery.