Sentence examples for over mandates from inspiring English sources

But aides have suggested that they are still negotiating over mandates, a question they might try to skirt by setting national voting standards but not calling them mandates.

Our leaders should not be bickering over mandates and who should take the lead in co-ordinating the refugee response in Syria and neighbouring countries.

I'd add, however, a further concern: the debate over mandates has reinforced the uncomfortable sense among some health reformers that Mr. Obama just isn't that serious about achieving universal care — that he introduced a plan because he had to, but that every time there's a hard choice to be made he comes down on the side of doing less.

He has declared himself an opponent of President Obama in the dispute over mandated birth-control coverage in health plans.

Ever since the Obama administration ran afoul of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops over mandated contraception coverage, Republican lawmakers have used Catholic leaders as a cudgel in their efforts to paint the Obama administration as waging a war on religious freedom.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C.

Virginia lawmakers had a high-profile debate in 2012 over mandating the procedure for such women.

The tax extenders were passed for only one year, and they still need to clear another potential hurdle: upcoming negotiations over mandated spending cuts and the debt ceiling.

When asked about the bishops' long-standing disputes with the Obama administration over mandating birth control coverage and expanding gay rights, Kurtz made a point of saying that "there is a great desire on the part of the bishops' conference to have a good and healthy relationship with the White House and Congress".

Apparently, it is not some arbitrary foul based upon a referee's personal interpretation of unenforceable, over-legislated mandates, sometimes coaxed by convincing method writhing by the quarterback.

When Mr. Kelly's department delayed for years in turning over legally mandated reports recording the number of police stop-and-frisks, the New York Civil Liberties Union — rather than the leadership of the City Council — pushed for release of the data.