Sentence examples for policy mandates from inspiring English sources

But baseball's substance-abuse policy mandates the punishment through suspensions; financial penalties are prohibited.

For one thing, municipal financial reform is essential because debt is crushing Chinese cities, leaving mayors with no means of financing the central government's policy mandates.

In practical terms, concluded Mr. Stimson and his co-authors, Lawrence J. Grossback and David A. M. Peterson, policy mandates exist only when both parties embrace common interpretations of an election's results.

"For example, advantage obtained by some market participants at the expense of another subset of participants must be balanced against public policy mandates of fairness to all -- and not just those involved in a particular transaction".

As such, its admissions policy mandates that 16percentt of the incoming class read above grade level, 16percentt read below grade level and 68percentt read at grade level.

The new use-of-force policy mandates that officers intervene where possible to prevent other officers from using force illegally, and failing that, to report such incidents to the authorities.

Their reasoning risks the same hubris as that of Republicans who believe voters handed them a policy mandate last week.

Unlike the I.R.S., Icann is not a government agency; it is a nonprofit corporation with a limited policy mandate.

It is a far broader policy mandate than was embraced by predecessors in both parties, who viewed their role as chief Congressional inquisitor of the executive administration.

He said that there was no formal policy mandating that employees leave their devices at home, "but they certainly educate employees who travel to China and Russia to do so".

While he acknowledged that staffing had been reduced over the years, he said the department's policy mandated that posts be staffed, even if officers are paid overtime.