Justice Lobis agreed with the plaintiffs' contention that the department had issued boilerplate statements, which she found lacked "the detailed analysis that an impact statement mandates".
After all, this is someone who, during the 2008 campaign, made this statement: Mandates, I love mandates, mandates work, this is what we need to do, we need to force people to buy insurance.
–A company policy statement, mandating that, among other things, "there will be no abusive language towards your co-workers or artists…no smoking, drinking, or usage of any other drug or alcohol related substances in the office PERIOD, business hours or not".
Officials in Ireland have taken the first steps in an effort to transform the country's higher education system, asking the heads of all institutions to submit detailed reports explaining mission statements, mandates and goals.
Read the background materials, basic information, statements, mandates and data here.
These duties represent democratic statements or mandates of 'acceptable' or 'optimal' risk after mitigation and express a rational trade-off between safety and risk6 (Hood & Rothstein 2001; Rothstein 2014).
In the Russian Federation where, like in the US, the annual statement is mandated by the constitution, a speech is delivered every April.
"In issuing these authorizations, the Corps declared that the Pipeline would not have a significant impact on the environment, and did not require a full environmental impact statement as mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act for federally permitted projects with significant environmental impacts," reads the court filing by Earthjustice. .
Significantly, it takes the threat to end cooperation beyond rhetorical statements to mandate action on the issue.
PhRMA, the largest pharmaceutical industry trade group, in an e-mailed statement said government mandates and interventions are not the solution for patients when it comes to medicine costs.
They drafted signing statements declaring the mandates would be treated as "advisory" and a State Department delegation attended such a meeting.
