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  • Practice sessions are mandatory.†   (source)
  • A customs official was to be waiting for the plane at the hangar to expedite the mandatory documentation and luggage check.†   (source)
  • I guessed she'd mentioned it to Maxon—who seemed to never pass up an opportunity to give someone something—and the outcome was a mandatory party for all the Selected.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence.†   (source)
  • That's mandatory."†   (source)
  • A minimum of five years in the business is mandatory for such a job.†   (source)
  • Then we're on a mandatory run to see how fit you are.†   (source)
  • And then they hand out mandatory vaccinations to everyone but a few slum sectors.†   (source)
  • I thought she was a convincing argument for mandatory sterilization.†   (source)
  • "There's a mandatory evacuation.†   (source)
  • Membership in the State Youth becomes mandatory.†   (source)
  • Strong swimming skills were mandatory and leashes were not used.†   (source)
  • First Friday attendance is mandatory, unless you are, like my sister, an "essential laborer."†   (source)
  • No television was allowed during study hours, and bedtime was mandatory at ten P.M., which none of them liked very much.†   (source)
  • Lindsey was suffering the mandatory presence in the family room that all holidays required.†   (source)
  • I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.†   (source)
  • Henceforth, if one aspired to be considered a member of the Himalayan elite, eschewing bottled oxygen was mandatory.†   (source)
  • She told me that when the cure was first made mandatory, some people tried to escape over the border.†   (source)
  • This afternoon during my mandatory review session with Mr. Gianini, I was sitting there practicing the FOIL method (first, outside, inside, last; first, outside, inside, last"Oh my God, when am I ever going to have to actually use the FOIL method in real life?†   (source)
  • Both my chief and I were Texans, which made that a mandatory accessory.†   (source)
  • Five minutes and his mandatory lunch hour was over.†   (source)
  • Here, P.E. was mandatory all four years.†   (source)
  • At Rhone River I take my twenty-four hour mandatory layover.†   (source)
  • Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham's mandatory muster of key men.†   (source)
  • Keep an eye on the InnerCircle feed in particular, because that's where you'll hear about staff meetings, mandatory gatherings, and any breaking news.†   (source)
  • Third-year mandatory review indicates Personnel $2222 acted within existing policies of Agency Basic Procedures.†   (source)
  • The Nixon administration supported the McDonald's bill and permitted McDonald's to raise the price of its Quarter Pounders, despite the mandatory wage and price controls restricting other fast food chains.†   (source)
  • "This is not mandatory," she says.†   (source)
  • Babette said, "Did you get the impression they were only making a suggestion or was it a little more mandatory, do you think?"†   (source)
  • Everyone on the student council had to attend--it was mandatory.†   (source)
  • People were afraid to take in a Jew; after all, the death penalty was mandatory for the offence.†   (source)
  • After the initial mandatory no and the required amount of begging from the kids, especially Kate, Mack finally gave in, reminding them once again of the rules of canoe safety and conduct.†   (source)
  • "From four to fifteen single lashes and mandatory expulsion from the University," Lorren recited.†   (source)
  • I'd been so sweet and doting just last night, at my mandatory meeting in our pretend fort.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza returned to her cabin after lunch for her inevitable siesta, but she did not sleep well because of a pain in her ear, which became worse when the boat exchanged mandatory greetings with another R.C.C. vessel as they passed each other a few leagues above Barranca Vieja.†   (source)
  • Before them, a table was laid out, candles and the mandatory cigar and bottle of rum.†   (source)
  • Buying the textbooks for the classes was not mandatory, and most of the material came in the form of printed-off packets, slide shows, and documentaries.†   (source)
  • As long as the dispute didn't involve Alex personally, it was perfectly legal-in fact, mandatory-for her to try the case.†   (source)
  • This was an observance the authorities considered mandatory.†   (source)
  • Tutoring was mandatory.†   (source)
  • I was in a whole new world, one where "conspiracy charges" and "mandatory minimum sentencing" would determine my fate.†   (source)
  • Fornication, for by seeking treatment she was acknowledging that she had engaged in sex before marriage, and she did not provide the mandatory four adult male Muslim eyewitnesses to prove that it was rape.†   (source)
  • Protective gear for the neck and eyes is mandatory.†   (source)
  • "And the drugs alone would result in a serious sentence, I believe."
      He nodded. "Minimum mandatory—fifteen years to life."†   (source)
  • A lover of the weekly "liberty" leaves that sent the Marines flocking into nearby towns and bars for fun, Mike was amused at a necessary ritual that accompanied each liberty: the mandatory testing for venereal disease of each man by a medic, as a chaplain stood piously by.†   (source)
  • That was a forbidden magic—and its use brought with it a mandatory expulsion from the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • 'The dim lights of the house were mandatory, and the paintings appreciated in full, added to almost nightly when some vampire brought a new engraving or picture by a contemporary artist into the house.†   (source)
  • A sense of humor was mandatory in our house.†   (source)
  • They are relatively few in number, since the school district's mandatory 2.†   (source)
  • After outlining the last few terms of my punishment (mandatory checking-in after school, agreeing to therapy, at least for a littlewhile), Cora squeezed my shoulder, then left the room, Roscoe rousing himself from where he'd been planted in the doorway to follow her upstairs.†   (source)
  • "There's no mandatory retirement age for drug dealers."†   (source)
  • Good officers were mandatory, and the only means to obtain good officers was to establish the army on a permanent footing.†   (source)
  • The licensing fees, the mandatory health exams, the rent, and sin tax all ate into profits.†   (source)
  • "Doctor Webb," interjected John St. Jacques spontaneously, as if the clarification were mandatory.†   (source)
  • "Mandatory community service" seemed like hypocrisy, but Benedetti cared more about attendance lists than philosophy.†   (source)
  • She says, "I think it's going to be mandatory for people to have to learn Spanish, because it's going to be the second language of the States."†   (source)
  • The clubs fair was mandatory for the whole seventh grade.†   (source)
  • Armies Not Mandatory†   (source)
  • At first, he was a pleasant distraction from her mandatory curriculum of pharmacology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology.†   (source)
  • This was the one mandatory, essential act that must precede the terrible decision to use the weapons.†   (source)
  • She's passed the mandatory age.†   (source)
  • I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing.†   (source)
  • This is supposed to be one case of a general invariant, that all freedoms arise from cultural conflicts because a custom which is not opposed by its negative is mandatory and always regarded as a "law of nature."†   (source)
  • Mid-morning, Mayor Nagin ordered the city's first-ever mandatory evacuation.†   (source)
  • Something tells me this is another mandatory event, like the fights, like the broadcasts.†   (source)
  • Our Victory Tour interview with Caesar Flickerman was mandatory viewing.†   (source)
  • In Ramadi, with our kill total becoming astronomical, the statements became mandatory and elaborate.†   (source)
  • During my first year in Newport Beach, my junior high was conducting mandatory scoliosis checks.†   (source)
  • It was a semi-mandatory welcome party for a group of potential partners.†   (source)
  • The teachers announced there was mandatory programming tonight.†   (source)
  • "No, no, no. There wasn't, you know, mandatory work here on the weekend.†   (source)
  • Being choked out is a mandatory SEAL occupation.†   (source)
  • That participation, at their beck and call, is mandatory?†   (source)
  • Your mandatory Circle account idea, and his chip.†   (source)
  • It was across campus, in the Old West—how had she missed a semi-mandatory event?†   (source)
  • Even in the countries where it's mandatory, it's not really enforced.†   (source)
  • Then, when they're old enough to vote, to participate, their membership is mandatory.†   (source)
  • Democracy is mandatory here! she said, and added, much to Mae's delight, Sharing is caring.†   (source)
  • It's also mandatory that you register for the draft, right?†   (source)
  • Insults were mandatory in a family like ours, so I'm used to it.†   (source)
  • Science is mandatory, and everybody gets assigned lab partners.†   (source)
  • Ended up with mandatory therapy, probation, and community service.†   (source)
  • All this mandatory love-at-first-sight was completely sickening!†   (source)
  • The mandatory GED program had been temporarily shut down.†   (source)
  • Afterward: well, that was mandatory-he needed someone to celebrate his win.†   (source)
  • Dates aren't mandatory, this time," Maggie said.†   (source)
  • Usually we only watch when it's mandatory, because the mixture of propaganda and displays of the Capitol's power--including clips from seventy-four years of Hunger Games--is so odious.†   (source)
  • Once in a while he considered killing himself — it seemed mandatory — but somehow he didn't have the required energy.†   (source)
  • After the mandatory training sessions on the use of the equipment and safety precautions, the teacher told the class he wanted them to create something on their own.†   (source)
  • The only time you can count on it is when they're airing the Games or some important government message on television that it's mandatory to watch.†   (source)
  • She had lunch at the school, and took flute lessons there on Tuesdays and Thursdays, because a musical instrument was mandatory.†   (source)
  • He knew there had been a mandatory evacuation in effect, and he assumed this had something to do with that.†   (source)
  • Mandatory Surrender†   (source)
  • We then took on another hundred new cases after the decision banning mandatory life without parole for juveniles.†   (source)
  • The new penalties should include greatly increased OSHA fines, mandatory plant closures, and criminal charges for negligence.†   (source)
  • It wasn't long until the Silvers built arenas everywhere, even villages like the Stilts, and attendance that was once a gift became a mandatory curse.†   (source)
  • Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides.†   (source)
  • They would be scolded for staying in the city when there was a mandatory evacuation in effect, and they would be sent north on a bus or helicopter.†   (source)
  • Dr. Patricia Griffin, one of the CDC's leading experts on E. coli 0157:H7, believes that food safety classes should be mandatory for fast food workers.†   (source)
  • Kathy had the minivan's radio on and heard Mayor Nagin repeat his instructions for residents to leave the city, but she noted that he had stopped short of a mandatory evacuation.†   (source)
  • She was convicted of multiple charges that triggered a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without parole.†   (source)
  • The thought of being left to my prep team's fashion whims only adds to the miseries competing for my attention--my abused body, my lack of sleep, my mandatory marriage, and the terror of being unable to satisfy President Snow's demands.†   (source)
  • When it confirmed the accuracy of the book, Roosevelt called for legislation requiring mandatory federal inspection of all meat sold through interstate commerce, accurate labeling and dating of canned meat products, and a fee-based regulatory system that made meatpackers pay the cost of cleaning up their own industry.†   (source)
  • I suspect she will soon, but in any event, extensive firearms training will be mandatory before she is allowed to date …. which should be around the time she turns thirty.†   (source)
  • Thousands of women have been sentenced to lengthy terms in prison for writing bad checks or for minor property crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences.†   (source)
  • He was given a mandatory death-in-prison sentence after his jury was illegally told that he had to prove his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt and the State introduced impermissible evidence.†   (source)
  • Some states also initiated mandatory transfer rules, which took away any discretion from prosecutors and judges over whether a child should be kept in the juvenile system.†   (source)
  • She is one of nearly five hundred people in Pennsylvania who have been condemned to mandatory life imprisonment without parole for crimes they were accused of committing when they were between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.†   (source)
  • I got involved in Evan's case right after his trial and filed a motion to reduce his sentence, even though it was the mandatory punishment for someone convicted of capital murder who was too young to be executed.†   (source)
  • I spent a lot of time in California that year supporting ballot initiatives and was encouraged that voters decided, by a huge margin, to end the state's "three strikes" law that imposed mandatory sentences on nonviolent offenders.†   (source)
  • Your mandatory thing, and the positive reaction it's gotten—this is the last step toward closing the Circle, and that can't happen."†   (source)
  • But I didn't picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network—"†   (source)
  • "And in those cases, you'd be using a mobile device to tag that person, given you wouldn't have the benefit of a conviction to ensure the mandatory chip or bracelet."†   (source)
  • "And if it's mandatory to have a TruYou account to pay taxes or receive any government service," she said, "then we're very close to having 100 percent of the citizenry.†   (source)
  • But we have to remember that there are all kinds of things that are mandatory for citizens of this country—and these things are mandatory in most industrialized countries.†   (source)
  • Once it's mandatory to have an account, and once all government services are channeled through the Circle, you'll have helped create the world's first tyrannical monopoly.†   (source)
  • There were meetings of every conceivable department—R&D, search, social, outreach, professional networking, philanthropic, ad sales, and with a plummeting of her stomach, Mae saw that she'd missed a meeting, deemed "pretty much mandatory" for all newbies.†   (source)
  • That's mandatory.†   (source)
  • But it's mandatory.†   (source)
  • His probation had been quite clear on the fact that any violation would result in mandatory reincarceration, and because of his previous record and the fact that he was driving, there wasn't any way this would slide.†   (source)
  • Even though she'd attended every party, formal, and mandatory meeting, she couldn't buy into the whole "sisterhood will change your life" ethos, nor did she believe that "being a Chi Omega will bestow lifelong benefits."†   (source)
  • By being able to step into a cage of steel hoops rather than having to don pounds and pounds of petticoats in order to give her skirts the mandatory width a fashionable woman of the day demanded, women everywhere were now at liberty to actually move their legs.†   (source)
  • Kile looked better than usual thanks to the mandatory makeover, but he was still an annoying little bookworm.†   (source)
  • If the Gospel of Thomas was right, however, and we were more like God than unlike Him, then having children should have been mandatory for everyone.†   (source)
  • Employee participation is mandatory.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, Travis and Gabby spent the mandatory holidays in Savannah and Gabby always came home stressed; once their daughters were born, Gabby finally told her parents she wanted to start her own holiday traditions and that while she would love to see them, her parents would have to come to Beaufort.†   (source)
  • It's not mandatory.†   (source)
  • Jay had arrived in Paris from Spain in June, and through most of the summer he and the British representative Richard Oswald had been in discussions centered on the recognition of American independence as a mandatory precursor to any talk of peace.†   (source)
  • Jason hoped so; it was not mandatory, but he could use their assistance-if, if, the bartender at Le Coeur du Soldat had been sufficiently intrigued by the excessive sums of money, as well as by a solitary conversation with a cripple he could obviously kill with one tattooed arm.†   (source)
  • One minute we'd be rifling about conspiracy theories, the next we'd be arguing so loudly about mandatory military service (I was for it; he, being a privileged wuss, was not) that we got kicked out of the library.†   (source)
  • Tonight was Brown's traditional response to the divisive national or campus issues: a mandatory "outreach" meeting held in all the freshman dorms.†   (source)
  • When the SEAL finished his mandatory words, Michelle Michaels, who had been called by the notification team and was waiting down the street, ran to Kelley and held her as she cried.†   (source)
  • If they hoped to finish well, the Fugees needed to win, and as important, to avoid getting any red cards, which brought mandatory point deductions.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Mary-Kate had significantly reduced her responsibilities at the sorority—other than attending mandatory meetings, Sophia was for the most part exempt from sisterly obligations.†   (source)
  • I guess it has been a couple of years since we've hugged, except the mandatory two-second squeeze on birthdays.†   (source)
  • "Only about half the unit showed up, even though it was supposed to be mandatory," she continues, moving easily between black-speak and flawless diction in her usual speedy canter.†   (source)
  • In the United States mandatory minimum sentencing was a critical part of the late-twentieth-century "War on Drugs."†   (source)
  • Soon that number increased to eight, four on each side, their body armor a shield surrounding Adam and the extra hands mandatory as muscles began to burn and shake.†   (source)
  • Kelley never let on to Adam that she had been on mandatory bed rest for the past few days due to complications with the pregnancy: pre-eclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction, both of which are potentially dangerous—and even fatal—for mother and baby.†   (source)
  • Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.†   (source)
  • I SAW on the callout that I was scheduled to spend my afternoon in a mandatory prerelease class on housing, and my blood pressure started to rise.†   (source)
  • But it was upsetting to think about what role the millions of Americans who were former prisoners might play in the next society—I knew from the Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) newsletters (which many prisoners received) that over 600,000 returned home from prison every year.†   (source)
  • A lack of priors and a history of general good conduct didn't matter at all—federal mandatory minimums dictated sentences, and if you were pleading guilty (the vast majority of us did), the only person with real leeway in determining what kind of time you would do was your prosecutor, not your judge.†   (source)
  • The case managers were tasked with managing the completion of our sentences, which meant recalculating our "good time" (we were supposed to serve only 85 percent of our sentences if we earned good time), collecting fines from our inmate accounts (if you couldn't pay fines, you wouldn't get good time), and assigning our "program" activity, including mandatory reentry classes.†   (source)
  • That's mandatory.†   (source)
  • Mandatory reading for anyone aspiring to the title of intellectual.†   (source)
  • Guy Francon, its designer, has known how to subordinate himself to the mandatory canons which generations of craftsmen behind him have proved inviolate, and at the same time how to display his own creative originality, not in spite of, but precisely because of the Classical dogma he has accepted with the humility of a true artist.†   (source)
  • Conditions here were most beneficial for encouraging him, because people lived together in a restricted area and followed a rigid schedule mandatory for all.†   (source)
  • However, at least in theory, they're mandatory attendance for the whole school, and for some reason Mr. McCarthy was a jerk about this one.†   (source)
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