In an interview, Mr. Stenholm said Congress needed a constitutional provision mandating a balanced budget to stiffen its resolve.

Republicans nonetheless continue to chafe under the school aid formula, and even went so far as to propose an amendment to the State Constitution that would have struck down a provision mandating the state to provide "thorough and efficient education" to all its children.

The Putnam agreement does contain a useful provision mandating that the funds' board of directors be more independent of the management companies that run its day-to-day operations.

The collectivist views prevailing among developing countries when the treaty was negotiated produced a provision mandating the transfer of seabed mining technology to the Enterprise, an international mining organization that would be formed under the treaty.

But large numbers also took advantage of provisions mandating that welfare agencies and other government offices also offer registration.

The plaintiff had sued under the Securities Act of 1933, under which any provision mandating that an investor waive their right to sue was prohibited.

He was sentenced to death under the last remaining provision of the state's previous capital punishment law, a provision mandating the execution of an inmate who committed murder while serving a life sentence.

The difficulty is that it bears a striking resemblance to "Obamacare," including a provision mandating that individuals get coverage.

That ability gave Washington an enormous stake in arms agreements that had strict provisions mandating weapons cuts and that forced the Russians to give up their most threatening weapons.

They labeled as unacceptable a Senate-passed provision mandating stiff sanctions against the Toshiba Corporation of Japan and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk of Norway for the sale of advanced technology to the Soviet Union.