Sentence examples for statute mandates from inspiring English sources

The statute mandates that the patient — who must be at least 18 and an Oregon resident — make two requests no less than 15 days apart, and that two physicians affirm that the patient has no more than six months to live and doesn't suffer from any mental disorder, including depression, that might impair judgment.

The White House extended executive privilege as a feint to protect Attorney General Eric Holder from a contempt of Congress charge (which may still proceed); should the full Congress press the charge, federal statute mandates that the justice department (which Eric Holder leads) convene a grand jury to prosecute it.

In Alaska, state statute mandates that specified professionals (e.g. medical provider, education instructor), must report suspected maltreatment to the state child welfare agency.

A 1975 statute mandated an open primary system for the election of state officers.

They contended that girls' soccer in the spring was a violation of Title IX, the federal statute mandating gender equality in athletics.

There, a state statute mandated that in actions to enforce an insurance policy, the court was to award the plaintiff a reasonable attorney's fee.

There, a railroad claimed that a statute mandating speedy settlement of "all claims for lost or damaged freight" contravened the fourteenth amendment.

"In God We Trust" began to appear on American coins in the 19th century, but in the early 20th century President Theodore Roosevelt, having asked the sculptor Augustus SaintoGaudesigno designewew coinage, was relieved to find no statute mandating "In God We Trust" on coins.

In 2012, after Congress enacted a statute mandating that the military initially take custody of all foreign Qaeda suspects, Mr. Obama issued a directive that pre-emptively waived that rule for most domestic circumstances, such as if the F.B.I. had arrested the suspect and was already in the process of an interrogation.

The statute mandated the "best technology available" to "minimize the adverse environmental impact". EPA decided not to require one extremely effective technology that was already in use in some places because the costs would be far too high compared to the additional environmental benefits.

But it preserves a portion of the statute mandating that all students become proficient in English, no matter what program they choose.