NO sooner had she taken the job at "Homeless" (her word for it) than the agency was threatened with legal action for violating its operating mandate: a winter surge in demand had left it temporarily short of shelter for several dozen single clients and a few displaced families.
About a fifth of business travelers operate under mandated travel programs, which require them to use the airlines, hotels and car rental companies their employer has chosen, according to the Global Business Travel Association Foundation's Global Business Traveler Study 2012, sponsored by Concur.
The basis for the states' argument is that Congress originally intended for the pre-existing conditions protections to operate alongside the mandate; if the mandate is gone, the lawsuit reasons, then the pre-existing protections should go too.
The Americans argued that these soldiers could operate outside the mandate of the UN.
Rural hospitals were excluded because some are designated "critical access hospitals" and operate under federal mandate.
He revoked Pope John Paul II's 1988 directives that had allowed bishops and priests in China to operate without the mandate of the Vatican.
As Mr. Farr made clear, the fate of the mandate should not determine the survival of the other elements of the law — like prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions or charging them higher fees — which can operate without the mandate.
Another shared feature is that the supported housing programs either operate under the mandate of the Canadian Mental Health Association, or the CMHA is at least involved with these programs and the agencies that administer them.
But RFRA operates by mandating consideration, under the compelling interest test, of exceptions to "rule[s] of general applicability". 42 U. S. C. §2000bb 1(a).
One problem, Rajan argued, is that central banks, such as the Fed, operate under domestic mandates, which don't take into account the international implications of their actions.
