Notably, some states can order mandatory recalls, a power Sen.

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Of the thousands of power engineers and bureaucrats India pay salary for, not one among them insisted that silt removal from dams is mandatory and without doing it, power generation cannot go on.

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Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.

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Worse, the United States will lend legitimacy and real power to the Treaty's mandatory dispute resolution mechanisms by subjecting itself, its businesses and taxpayers to their jurisdiction.

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For instance, it is coastal Republican governors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Pataki and Mitt Romney who are leading the way on placing mandatory curbs on carbon emissions from cars and power plants.

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In America, although the Bush administration remains hostile to any mandatory action on slowing global warming, it is keen to boost nuclear power.

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So, why did the company feel the need to make touch a mandatory component of Haswell-running Ultrabooks, given the added cost and power-demands associated with the hardware.

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Anything like that (such as mandatory automobile insurance) always before has been recognized as a function of the police power reserved to the states.

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