Faced with work-hour restrictions, educators are mandated to improve the efficiency of resident and medical student education.
If he is to win a clear mandate, Mr Santos needs to face down Mr Uribe, assert his own agenda and tell Colombians that the peace process offers a historic opportunity to transform the country for the better.
Some analysts maintain that her objectives going into these elections were Machiavellian from the start: that she intended to hand over the Presidency to a successor who would come into office with a limited mandate with which to face an increasingly intractable economy.
I think we at Patagonia are mandated by our mission statement to face the question of growth, both by bringing it up and by looking at our own situation as a business fully ensnared in the global industrial economy.
This is helped by the fact that a pope, by definition, does not have to face elections, fulfill a mandate or accomplish a set term.
In addition, new procedures were put in place to mandate face-to-face communication between the transplant coordinator and the hospital respiratory therapist before study initiation.
The result validated his gamble to call an early election, seeking a fresh mandate to tackle crises facing the country – most pressingly, North Korea's accelerating nuclear weapons program.
There are other barriers to getting coverage, like a state law that mandates a face-to-face interview for applicants, and cumbersome forms.
Prior to the ruling, states would feel pressured to accept the Medicaid expansion mandate or face a loss in eligibility for the federal government matching 90percentt of state's Medicaid funding.
They struggle with their mandate to serve everyone, and face a constant battle with non-revenue water (NRW) due to their aging infrastructure - water that costs money to produce but is not sold: it's lost to leaks, theft, and poor metering.
