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  • Halfway through my fifth grade the school gave us a compulsory eye examination.†  (source)
  • "I hadn't realized it was compulsory," I grumbled.†  (source)
  • He didn't say anything then, but the next night he made us have compulsory study hall in the academic building and he came up and made a speech.†  (source)
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  • As though something in their family genes had bestowed on them compulsory bumps that appeared randomly on different parts of their bodies.†  (source)
  • That the party to which Hist compulsorily belonged was not one that was regularly on the war path, was evident by the presence of females.†  (source)
  • Later, our personality journalist speculates on where Uncle Enzo will stay when he makes his compulsory trip to our Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.†  (source)
  • Nor am I prepared to accept the verdict of the medical gentlemen who would compulsorily sanitate and register Mrs Warren, whilst leaving Mrs Warren's patrons, especially her military patrons, free to destroy her health and anybody else's without fear of reprisals.†  (source)
  • Attendance at Prayvaganzas isn't compulsory for them, especially if they're on duty or have young children, but the galleries seem to be filling up anyway.†  (source)
  • Not only, therefore, does this union of power subdue them compulsorily, but it affects them in the ordinary habits of life, and influences each individual, first separately and then collectively.†  (source)
  • She smiles, but on her the expression looks compulsory, like she's just adhering to a social convention.†  (source)
  • War does not always give over democratic communities to military government, but it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration.†  (source)
  • I think it's more or less compulsory at Cannes.†  (source)
  • The first Pregnancy Substitute isn't compulsory till twenty-one.†  (source)
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