What is "mandating"

Usage examples of "mandating".

When the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive mandating inspections of the rest of the 737 fleet, forty-nine more planes, operated by eighteen different carriers, were found to have extensive cracking.

Our discussions centered on measures that must be taken in light of current unfavorable winds, to avoid formal federal legislation mandating divulgence of certain confidential client information, not only to the office of the federal prosecutor but to a committee of international agencies.

Hewitt immediately reassured the assembled bankers—the task force was headed by the Deputy CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland—that New Labour had not the slightest intention of mandating any new lending requirements.