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compulsory English

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compulsory

When something is compulsory, it is required and has to be followed. In most countries, it is compulsory to vote during elections and failing to do so is a crime.

compulsory

(= mandatory, required) required by rule in most schools physical education is compulsory attendance is mandatory required reading

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Simple sentences

Attendance is compulsory for all members.
Compulsory military service exists in Turkey.
English is a compulsory subject.
Some countries make voting compulsory.
In Australia, voting is compulsory.
Participation isn't compulsory.

Movie subtitles

As soon as it became compulsory.
Briefly speaking, an order introducing compulsory isolation of all lepers will be issued presently.
Excuse me, Sir, but evening clothes are compulsory.
Swimming was compulsory at high school.
Compulsory call, Kid.
For this woman, the compulsory sheltering and feeding of an extra eight people.
Don't you have a compulsory scan unit in the computer?
Computer, this is a Class-A compulsory directive.
It's compulsory.
It's not compulsory.
It is compulsory.
You do. -No. That check-up wasn't compulsory.
They're compulsory, board of trade, promise.
I don't wish a compulsory marriage for my child.
It's absolutely compulsory that we have the signature of a physician.
And this is a certificate to prove that you're an inspector of compulsory work service.
Department of Compulsory Labor.
This gentleman is from the Department of Compulsory Labor at Vichy.
He had a letter of commission in the Department of Compulsory Labor.
It was compulsory testimony.
Agatha Christie should be compulsory reading for the police force.
Freedom of worship with a little compulsory sport.
How about Brazil? Their characteristics are really slow, they tried to make it compulsory for conscripts, but there were many who still thought of methods not to go.
It's not compulsory, is it?
No, it's not compulsory, only you've got to join, see?
So you're not going to obey the decree. which declares that education is compulsory?
Don't you have a compulsory scan unit built into the computer banks?
No. That check-up wasn't compulsory.
The insurance is, in fact, compulsory.
Even Inspectors are victims of compulsory education.

News and current affairs

As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
After all, the financial system did not collapse altogether, and the Obama administration made a conscious decision to revive banks with hidden subsidies rather than to recapitalize them on a compulsory basis.
Since 1955, Singapore has taken a direct approach: a compulsory national saving plan, which generates very high saving rates.
The United States has no compulsory saving plan, and it has an abysmally low - in fact, negative - personal saving rate.
Since laws are not the answer to child labor, many experts propose compulsory education as a means to curb it.
The compulsory recapitalization of large US banks within the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for example, has proved to be the cornerstone of their new strength.
It presupposed moral agnosticism and a plurality of meanings, none of which are sacred or compulsory to all.
Instead, no commitments to new money were made, and the inclusion of adaptation plans will be optional, not compulsory.
If there is one book that should be compulsory reading for anyone who makes public statements about human rights, this is it.
Among the report's 16 recommendations is to develop quality teaching through compulsory continuous professional training, and to recognize and reward achievement.
To fully realize this ideal, participation in Wikipedia might be made compulsory for advanced undergraduates and Master's degree candidates worldwide.
Compulsory student participation would not only improve Wikipedia 's already impressive collective knowledge base, but also might help curb the elitist pretensions of researchers in the global knowledge system.
The UAE and Qatar have already instituted compulsory military service for adult males.
Religion remains a compulsory subject throughout university programs, while inquisitiveness, critical thinking, and objective analysis are all widely discouraged.
Maybe these countries could do even better by adopting a compulsory saving plan, but they are not about to do so.
The best reason not to make savings plans compulsory is that different people face very different circumstances that only they know about.
A government saving plan that is based on automatic, though not compulsory, enrollment has the ability to deal with this problem, if only imperfectly.
Such compulsory licensing is a big cause of the global destruction of biodiversity.
When America faced an anthrax threat in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officials issued a compulsory license for Cipro, the best-known antidote.
Ollanta Humala opposes compulsory and mass coca eradication, claiming that he would industrialize and export the product to keep it from falling into drug dealers' hands.
There is a second obstruction as well: the US Congress refuses to face up realistically to the climate challenge, because China, as a developing country, is not obliged to accept compulsory carbon limits.
In contrast, the later Victorians, from the 1850's-1880's, created major public works and public-welfare initiatives, including state-funded infirmary networks and compulsory primary education.

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