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  • In 1986, when the "mandatories" were instituted, one woman in eight was incarcerated in prison for a drug related crime, and by 1991 that figure had increased to one in three, an increase of 433% (compared with a 283% increase for men).

    Women And Drugs: Twenty Five Years Of Research And Policy 1991

  • The President's victory was emphasized when he also won the Europeans and the representatives of the British overseas Dominions to acceptance of the principle of "mandatories," according to which the German colonies were not to be distributed as spoils amongst the victors, but to become the property of the League and to be administered by the mandatory states, not for their own benefit but for that of the colonies.

    Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924

  • It was finally agreed that the German colonies and Turkish provinces which were in a backward stage of development should be placed under the tutelage of certain powers acting as "mandatories" holding them in "a sacred trust of civilization."

    History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917

  • Faced by this ominous situation, the "mandatories" took military counter-measures.

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • It is their peculiar mission -- for long clearly recognized by Great Britain and France in their political relations with inferior and backward peoples; by the United States in its excellent work in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; and clearly formulated in the system of "mandatories" under the League of Nations -- to help backward peoples to advance, and to assist them in lifting themselves to a higher plane of world civilization.

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • In addition, both Pavlik and Abraham had "mandatories".

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • OK, we all know that many "mandatories" are little more than "fund raisers" for the alphabet soups, but they must be honored or the title-holder can be stripped of his belt.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • "mandatories" of the "League of Nations" will be in the black areas, and will have to be carried by the nations which have made the most progress in civilization and shown in the highest sense of responsibility for the welfare of peoples that have come under their care.

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • "mandatories" and "guidelines", even if it is you who took the pic and you who emailed it, if you are a minor.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Each of these divisions should be dealt with separately in considering Arabian politics nowadays, and it will be well for the "mandatories" concerned if further sub-divisions do not complicate matters; I omit the sub-province of Hasa (once a dependency of the Turkish _pashalik_ at

    Pan-Islam

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