In Texas, legislators passed an unusual mandate that required school districts to spend twelve million dollars on Voyager.
He should use this unusual mandate to build a more legitimate and inclusive political order — and all the more urgently because the system that brought him to power bypassed the ordinary Somalis who are now welcoming him.
"It was an unusual mandate, because I don't normally get asked to make people look older, " Page said, referring to his usual beat: fashion photo shoots and runway shows.
The plan's unusual mandate for a developer to include a cultural group with local ties is testament to the symbolic importance of Mart 125 among Harlem residents, said Lynnette Velasco, a spokeswoman for Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, who represents central Harlem.
That unusual mandate also anticipated changes in how an institution might operate.
Like Diamond, Arnold and other incarcerated trans women have argued that their limited access to gender-affirming care constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation, which bars cruel and unusual punishment and mandates the provision of adequate medical treatment to prisoners.
But three decades of staggering population growth combined with three high-impact recessions, budgeting by ballot box, federal mandates, an unusual tax structure and the rising cost of social services have finally produced disastrous results, and the ramifications are reaching across every aspect of life in this state.
While new mandates may be unusual, they are likely to be only the first of many.
In this situation, however, the very act of permitting television cameras for general public broadcast would make a cruel and unusual spectacle of the legally mandated sentence.
Only a few weeks of the committee's mandate remained.Pecora was an unusual choice.
