Sentence examples for question of mandates from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schumer said the question of mandates "will work its way through the process in the next several months and in fall we can sit down and have a compromise".

"I am sympathetic, and I understand the concerns, and I appreciate as well the political volatility around the question of mandating or requiring coverage," said Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, who is also on the finance panel.

But John Roberts emphasises in his opinion that the court doesn't treat the question of whether the mandate is a penalty or a tax as a word game:In answering that constitutional question, this Court follows a functional approach, "[d]isregarding the designation of the exaction, and viewing its substance and application".

Surely, the question of the government mandating the public to buy a commercial product will be hotly debated.

But northern agencies cannot hand a veto on strategy or policy to their hand-picked southern partners and pretend they've answered all the thorny questions of legitimacy, mandate and representativeness.

Debra L. Raskin, a partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, a law firm that represents employees in workplace matters, said that on the basic question of whether the law mandates work-life balance, the judge had it right.

The BBC's sage parliamentary correspondent, Mark D'Arcy, suggests delicately that the bill will probably be "opposed" amid an "interesting argument" (in other words, it is probably doomed).Yet Mr Skidmore makes his case well, skirting around the question of historical conventions and mandates to focus on the central issue of trust.

They cannot estimate wage or employment effects on the least skilled, nor can they say anything about how living wages affect families; hence the NETS data cannot address the central policy question of whether living wage mandates ultimately help or hurt those whom they affect.

So the near future of this country, the next year or two, is going to be a question of how those two mandates work things out together, not how we assume that Obama has a blank check just for his single mandate".

The Obama campaign sent out a portion of the president's interview with Cincinnati's NBC affiliate, in which he hammers Mitt Romney for his meandering response to the question of whether the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act is a penalty or a tax.

Building owners had questioned the feasibility of mandated improvements, arguing that they often bear the burden of paying for investments without any codified way to share costs with tenants.