Sentence examples for not mandates from inspiring English sources

Yet the Vatican is reportedly working on new "guidelines" -- not mandates.

Although these aims are often presented as guidelines, not mandates, management rarely treats them as negotiable.

But to some governors and state lawmakers, the centers' recommendations were not mandates.

As you correctly point out, guidelines are not mandates, and without such directives from the pope, abusers and those who have assisted them will continue to thrive while victims suffer in silence and ignominy.

"It's not for canonical legislation to get itself involved with civil law," one prelate airily declared, insisting Rome's existing "guidelines" — not mandates — are sufficient for prelates to obey civil laws.

"It was extremely well received," Brozek recalls, but the committee felt some changes to the language were needed to make sure it was clear that these were recommendations, not mandates.

Fingerprinting was not mandated until 1999.

These children were not mandated to attend.

It's not mandated à la 1984".

The policy is not mandated by any law.

And states do not mandate it, he added.