And this has had a very noticeable affect on the unemployment rate, needless to say, as state governments in particular are mandated to balance their budgets annually.
The provincial archaeological branch, which is mandated to balance the rights of landowners with those of First Nations, issued building permits that came with conditions that the construction did not disturb the site.
Conservatives have long pushed for mandating political balance in the media — when they can use that mandate to their advantage.
But the new consent agreement mandates Detroit balance its budget, and Lewis is expected to propose layoffs and deep cuts to put the city in the black.
The Fed's mandate, balanced between fighting inflation and encouraging full employment, leads to a simple investor calculus: if growth sags, the Fed is virtually certain to cut interest rates.
Newsweek wrote in 2010 that "in Charlotte, federally mandated busing ensured balance until 1999, when a court ruled that integration had been accomplished.
Sinn Fein is the only party not to have endorsed the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, the force with a mandated Catholic-Protestant balance that replaces the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which was 92 percent Protestant.
The voters seem to have an innate preference for those constitutionally mandated checks and balances.
Last year, Congress approved a budget that technically was within spending ceilings mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
While the booking of Carswell was clearly journalistically justified on a night when, as presenter David Dimbleby joked, his party was expected to double its parliamentary presence, the shape of this Question Time panel was a vivid illustration of the challenges posed to TV politics shows, mandated to be "balanced", by the blurring of the two-party standoff in Britain.
