The individual mandate forces individuals into commerce precisely because they elected to refrain from commercial activity.

It's also important to note that copies of the individual mandate reports must be given to all employees.

Lawyers, academics and campaign staff spent weeks analysing his recent remarks and rulings for clues on what his final position might be on the legality of the individual mandate.

He also secured an individual mandate during the parliamentary election in 2010.

The individual mandate was felt to resonate with conservative principles of individual responsibility, and conservative groups recognized that the healthcare market was unique.

It will expand the available force pool and mandate a standard set of force structures organized and equipped to be interchangeable.

This act took over pre-existing highways and rebuilt them to a standard mandated by the state.

These standards mandate thermocoupling in the middle of the test assemblies, in each quadrant and joints.

Some safety experts advocated a performance-based occupant protection standard rather than a standard mandating a particular technical solution, which could rapidly become outdated and might not be a cost-effective approach.

The fiscal mandate requires borrowing to be below 2 per cent of gross domestic product by 2020-21.

This mandate requires the operator to have a certified and properly maintained spark arrestor installed at all times.

Our mandate requires us to never lose touch with our fellow citizens.

A compromise would be to mandate their use only at busy times or in busier stores.

These regulations mandate the use of safety devices and needle-removers with any sharps or needles.

Some ski areas mandate the use of safety bars on dangerous or windy lifts, with forfeiture of the lift ticket as a penalty.

Regulations in several countries mandate the use of nontoxic projectiles especially when hunting waterfowl.

Many other leagues around the world mandate the use of visors.

The order of national preference was (c), (b), (a), but with no overwhelming mandate for any of them.

After all, the employees had an overwhelming mandate to withdraw their labour.

But the new administration behaved as though it had an overwhelming mandate for radical revolutionary change.

In 1997, the party secured its win with an overwhelming mandate, and absolutely light and slight opposition.

In the end, it's all about central bank accountability — and aligning policy mandates with the new and complex challenges of an interdependent world.

Government policy mandates that principals have to be citizens after this.

This policy mandates life imprisonment for a third criminal conviction of any felony offense.

Many have implemented policies mandating the use of vacuum excavation.

Students have to face an arduous process to start a new group, because school policy mandates every student group to be very active and productive.

Because of this, the law has been criticized by some as an unfunded mandate.

This unfunded mandate was a perennial source of frustration for both the superior courts and the counties.

Encouragingly, the pipeline of won but as yet unfunded mandates from institutions rose by 1 billion.

Sometimes the government provides public goods using unfunded mandates.