Sample sentences for MANDATORY

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Definition

required by rule

Much more rarely and historically, mandatory can refer to a League of Nations country that holds a mandate over a territory.

In our state, the mandatory minimum sentence for a gun crime is ten years.

mandatory = required by rule

Attendance at the meeting is mandatory for all employees.

mandatory = required

"And the drugs alone would result in a serious sentence, I believe."
He nodded. "Minimum mandatory—fifteen years to life."
Alex Flinn -- Beastly

mandatory = required by rule

Everyone on the student council had to attend—it was mandatory.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

mandatory = required by rule

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.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

mandatory = required by rule

The death sentence is mandatory in this case.
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

mandatory = required by rule or law

The teachers announced there was mandatory programming tonight.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
Our Victory Tour interview with Caesar Flickerman was mandatory viewing.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
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.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
The arrests also come at a time when Parliament is conducting a mandatory five-year review of Canada's new anti-terror laws.
David Frum's Diary on National Review Online -- http://frum.nationalreview.com/print/ (retrieved 06/29/06)
The Court here invokes political principles to decide a humdrum case over the question of whether a federal law against age discrimination bars mandatory retirement provisions for state judges.
Michael S. Greve -- How to Think about Constitutional Change, Part II -- http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.22942/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
Third-year mandatory review indicates Personnel $2222 acted within existing policies of Agency Basic Procedures.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
"From four to fifteen single lashes and mandatory expulsion from the University," Lorren recited.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Ended up with mandatory therapy, probation, and community service.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
That was a forbidden magic—and its use brought with it a mandatory expulsion from the Archipelago.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
At Rhone River I take my twenty-four hour mandatory layover.
Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing.
Jimmy Carter -- A Crisis of Confidence
And then they hand out mandatory vaccinations to everyone but a few slum sectors.
Marie Lu -- Legend
Good officers were mandatory, and the only means to obtain good officers was to establish the army on a permanent footing.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
A customs official was to be waiting for the plane at the hangar to expedite the mandatory documentation and luggage check.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

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