Examples include flogging, imprisonment, fines, mandating pledges and oaths, enslavement, banishment, and sometimes even the destruction of a person's house.
Half Empty: Contributions to the $100 billion/year goal are neither mandated nor pledged.
Standing here in the Hall of Remembrance, our thoughts must encompass the victims of all these genocides, for they are all the victims of the same evil, the evil of bigotry and intolerance that this Museum is mandated and pledged to expose and fight against, not with guns, bombs and missiles, but with ideas and ideals.
The new law mandating the pledge or the national anthem every day was supposed to have gone into effect September 1st, at the beginning of the current academic year.
While there are generally exceptions carved out for objectors (thanks to a 1943 Supreme Court ruling that said children couldn't be forced to recite it), they must nevertheless watch as their classmates stand in unison and, with hands over hearts, utter a government-mandated pledge of loyalty to the United States.
The Taliban Web site claimed that Mansur received visiting delegations, whose members pledged bay'at (religiously mandated allegiance) to him.
The government, which recently mandated a base pay for security guards, has pledged to submit broader legislation to Parliament by June.
Last month, Shorter University, a Christian Baptist school located in Rome, Ga., mandated that its 200 employees sign a "personal lifestyle pledge" declaring that they reject homosexuality, premarital sex and adultery.
Late last month, the council asked all the local candidates for office to sign a pledge to not hang signs on public property, as mandated by the little-obeyed Section 10-119 of the city's Administrative Code.
As reported by Guardian Australia, the Coalition's yet-to-be-released resources policy will pledge to mandate continuous noise monitoring of windfarms, a requirement the industry says is crippling in cost and will not provide useful information.
A Trump executive order mandated that all full-time political appointees to his administration sign an ethics pledge, a key provision of which bars signers from lobbying their former agencies for five years after they leave the government.
