Japan began its formal administration under a League of Nations mandate in 1920.

1920年起，日本在国际联盟的授权下开始了它的正式行政管理。

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The U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration has a mandate to oversee the safety of seafood imports by inspecting shipments at the border.

美国食品药品管理局（FDA）的其中一项任务就是在边境检查进口海鲜货物的安全。

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The Obama administration claimed that the individual mandate is a necessary and proper means of carrying out its reforms in the health-insurance market.

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This is the same argument the Obama Administration is now using to justify the coercion of the individual mandate in the federal courts.

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Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administration of Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.

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