| Muscovy in 1597 prevented self-sale into slavery from becoming hereditary by mandating manumission of such slaves on their owners' deaths. |
| The government followed up on these demands in 1900 by mandating the creation of public reformatories in each prefecture. |
| The overreaching buttinskies in the federal regulatory bureaucracy learned that they made a grievous error in mandating air bags in all vehicles. |
| The federal government has begun mandating it, and they insist that their architects earn at least a bronze rating. |
| Early in his first premiership, Francesco Crispi changed an 1859 compulsory education law mandating that students take lessons in Scripture and catechism. |
| One-size-fits-all standardized tests are driving curricula, and top-down reforms are mandating lockstep procedures for classroom instructors. |
