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  • Virchow made important contributions in oncology and parasitology, coined at least fifty medical terms still in use today, defined the pathophysiology of a host of diseases, including trichinosis, and led a successful campaign for compulsory meat inspection in Germany.†   (source)
  • She completed the nine years of compulsory schooling without a certificate.†   (source)
  • The Sunday before there would be a compulsory church attendance.†   (source)
  • She smiles, but on her the expression looks compulsory, like she's just adhering to a social convention.†   (source)
  • We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education.†   (source)
  • These were the showers, a compulsory formality at the entrance to all these camps.†   (source)
  • It was compulsory.†   (source)
  • For example, England slowed its fertility rate seriously in the 1870s, probably because of the Education Act of 1870, which called for compulsory education.†   (source)
  • The compulsory age was eight, but there was no room for my group that year, so I didn't start until later.†   (source)
  • The circumstances that resulted in, shall we say, my compulsory residency here in the Keep of Time were of my own making.†   (source)
  • Education is compulsory, that means required.†   (source)
  • No …. then the boys would have to learn Hindi or Tamil as a compulsory second language.†   (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)
  • Jewish education was compulsory for the Orthodox, and because this was America and not Europe, English education was compulsory as well—so each student carried a double burden: Hebrew studies in the mornings and English studies in the afternoons.†   (source)
  • That he was seriously considering following BoneMan's instructions felt at once sickening and compulsory.†   (source)
  • And maybe Cox, when he found himself working for a captain who held compulsory prayer meetings three times a day, was filled with a different kind of zeal, which would have been black with flames around the edges.†   (source)
  • Compulsory protection of the vice president didn't begin until 1962, reinforcing the notion that the vice presidency is a thankless job.†   (source)
  • If you want my adviceoh, I know you won't go for it, but it's just a thought-issue a directive making it compulsory to add, say, one-third more men to every payroll in the country.†   (source)
  • Comrades, I beg you—do not resort to compulsory taxation.†   (source)
  • Blood is compulsory-they're all blood, you see.†   (source)
  • Certainly, since leaving the Marine Corps two years before, I had never thought of hat-wearing as a compulsory matter.†   (source)
  • When we all had to crowd into compulsory chapel, one or two little frail undernourished students would faint sometimes—we had a fifteen-minute long Alma Mater to sing.†   (source)
  • I highly approve of vaccination, feel it should be compulsory; rabies is a dreadful thing.†   (source)
  • If the children were not in school by Monday, the parents would face a thirty-day jail sentence and a fine of fifty dollars per day, in violation of the compulsory-attendance law.†   (source)
  • Education is compulsory for young children in the United States.
  • Alecto, Amycus's sister, teaches Muggle Studies, which is compulsory for everyone.†   (source)
  • If I didn't go after him, Sam would pull him deeper into his frightening, compulsory gang.†   (source)
  • All whites undergo compulsory military training, but no such training was given to Africans.†   (source)
  • Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.†   (source)
  • All whites undergo compulsory military training, but no such training was given to Africans.†   (source)
  • "They know it's compulsory that they write in German, these blasted people.†   (source)
  • Rumania, for instance, had anticipated Gilead in the eighties by banning all forms of birth control, imposing compulsory pregnancy tests on the female population, and linking promotion and wage increases to fertility.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hearing, Palmgren intimated that compulsory institutionalisation was in all probability not only contrary to Parliament's decisions in similar situations, but in this particular case it might in addition be the subject of political and media reprisals.†   (source)
  • He had interviewed some of the Haitians quarantined on Guantánamo, and from them heard stories of wretched treatment at the hands of the U.S. military—of food with maggots in it, of compulsory blood tests and compulsory injections of the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera—its effects can last up to eighteen months—of beatings when they protested.†   (source)
  • If, with the right kind of luck, it comes off, it should be comparable in effect to a compulsory guided tour through the engine room, with myself, as guide, leading the way in an old one-piece Jantzen bathing suit.†   (source)
  • Lyndon Johnson returned the favor by issuing an executive order precluding Hoover from compulsory retirement, thus allowing the director to remain in charge of the FBI until his death in 1972 at the age of seventy-seven.†   (source)
  • There is compulsory education for all white children at virtually no cost to their parents, be they rich or poor.†   (source)
  • When I heard about this intimidation, I returned to the island to tell the people that the compulsory-attendance law had never been enforced in the state of South Carolina.†   (source)
  • I think it's more or less compulsory at Cannes.†   (source)
  • The first Pregnancy Substitute isn't compulsory till twenty-one.†   (source)
  • Compulsory declaration of all cases of fever and their isolation were to be strictly enforced.†   (source)
  • That's why we've made the V.P.S. treatments compulsory.†   (source)
  • Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office chairs; and it is all compulsory, mechanical and against the grain, and it could all be done or left undone just as well by machines; and indeed it is this never-ceasing machinery that prevents their being, like me, the critics of their own lives and recognizing the stupidity and shallowness, the hopeless tragedy and waste of the lives they lead, and the awful…†   (source)
  • Simon's patience and swallowing were worse to me than his wrath or flamboyance--that shabby compulsory physical patience.†   (source)
  • Some supplementary regulations enjoined compulsory disinfection of the sickroom and of the vehicle in which the patient traveled.†   (source)
  • The fortress was entered by tunnels in the rock, and, over the entrance to each tunnel, there was a notice which said: EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY He read the notice with dislike, though he did not understand its meaning.†   (source)
  • Where are your free and compulsory schools?†   (source)
  • As soon as he recovered, I related our compulsory visit, and detention at the Heights.†   (source)
  • On other estates the serfs' compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Lydgate, in a tone of compulsory admission.†   (source)
  • And it had been Clyde's compulsory duty throughout the years when he could not act for himself to be in attendance at these various meetings.†   (source)
  • It's not compulsory, you know.†   (source)
  • He had on a suit of the villainously fitting, ready-made clothes and a pair of the stiff, squeaky shoes that the state furnishes to its discharged compulsory guests.†   (source)
  • …favour with the people who 'really counted,' that he made it possible for us to transgress laws which Francoise had taught me to regard as more ineluctable than the laws of life and death, as when we were allowed to postpone for a year the compulsory repainting of the walls of our house, alone among all the houses in that part of Paris, or when he obtained permission from the Minister for Mme. Sazerat's son, who had been ordered to some watering-place, to take his degree two months…†   (source)
  • Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.†   (source)
  • He had unconsciously dropped back into the phraseology of the first days of his compulsory greatness.†   (source)
  • He was one of those boys who are too slack to play games, and he exercised great ingenuity in making excuses to avoid such as were compulsory.†   (source)
  • Will it be compulsory?†   (source)
  • The grades and the high school were combined in a damp yellow-brick structure with the narrow windows of an antiquated jail—a hulk which expressed hatred and compulsory training.†   (source)
  • She became daily and visibly more plump, and though she chattered as eagerly, she was less obviously admiring of marital bliss, less sentimental about babies, sharper in demanding that the entire town share her reforms—the purchase of a park, the compulsory cleaning of back-yards.†   (source)
  • However, so tightly were the social lines of Lycurgus drawn, so few the truly eligibles, that it was almost necessary and compulsory upon those "in" to make the best of such others as were "in."†   (source)
  • …what a speech he meant to make in favour of that petition whenever it should be presented, and how desperately he meant to taunt the parliament if they rejected the bill; and to inform them also, that he regretted his honourable friends had not inserted a clause rendering the purchase of muffins and crumpets compulsory upon all classes of the community, which he—opposing all half-measures, and preferring to go the extreme animal—pledged himself to propose and divide upon, in committee.†   (source)
  • In our present society it is not altogether normal, because it is compulsory, but in the future society it will be perfectly normal, because it will be voluntary.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I can understand compulsory military service, which affects my children, my brothers, and myself, I am ready to deliberate on what concerns me; but deliberating on how to spend forty thousand roubles of district council money, or judging the half-witted Alioshka—I don't understand, and I can't do it."†   (source)
  • It was the ideal of "book-learning"; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the longing to know.†   (source)
  • He resumed his speech: "For more than twenty years I have amused my compulsory leisure with collecting these curious physical signatures in this town.†   (source)
  • He had long since begun to sigh again for Eustacia; indeed, it may be asserted that signing the marriage register with Thomasin was the natural signal to his heart to return to its first quarters, and that the extra complication of Eustacia's marriage was the one addition required to make that return compulsory.†   (source)
  • Every wealthy and powerful citizen constitutes the head of a permanent and compulsory association, composed of all those who are dependent upon him, or whom he makes subservient to the execution of his designs.†   (source)
  • Nobody can feel that such conventions are really compulsory; and consequently nobody can believe in the stage pathos that accepts them as an inexorable fate, or in the genuineness of the people who indulge in such pathos.†   (source)
  • Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.†   (source)
  • Professor Liedenbrock devoured his portion voraciously, for his compulsory fast on board had converted his stomach into a vast unfathomable gulf.†   (source)
  • The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.†   (source)
  • Democratic nations are therefore soon led to give up the system of voluntary recruiting for that of compulsory enlistment.†   (source)
  • The notions and habits of the people of the United States are so opposed to compulsory enlistment that I do not imagine it can ever be sanctioned by the laws.†   (source)
  • …the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by…†   (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)
  • In actual life each historic event, each human action, is very clearly and definitely understood without any sense of contradiction, although each event presents itself as partly free and partly compulsory.†   (source)
  • In other places, the legislator, entirely forgetting the great principles of religious toleration which he had himself upheld in Europe, renders attendance on divine service compulsory, *w and goes so far as to visit with severe punishment, ** and even with death, the Christians who chose to worship God according to a ritual differing from his own.†   (source)
  • When military service is compulsory, the burden is indiscriminately and equally borne by the whole community.†   (source)
  • Nothing better serves to justify an illicit passion, either to the minds of those who have conceived it or to the world which looks on, than compulsory or accidental marriages.†   (source)
  • Thus the black population augments in the South, not only by its natural fecundity, but by the compulsory emigration of the negroes from the North; and the African race has causes of increase in the South very analogous to those which so powerfully accelerate the growth of the European race in the North.†   (source)
  • I have heard American statesmen confess that the Union will have great difficulty in maintaining its rank on the seas without adopting the system of impressment or of maritime conscription; but the difficulty is to induce the people, which exercises the supreme authority, to submit to impressment or any compulsory system.†   (source)
  • All these distinct and compulsory occupations are so many natural barriers, which, by keeping the two sexes asunder, render the solicitations of the one less frequent and less ardent—the resistance of the other more easy.†   (source)
  • When a European author wishes to depict in a work of imagination any of these great catastrophes in matrimony which so frequently occur amongst us, he takes care to bespeak the compassion of the reader by bringing before him ill-assorted or compulsory marriages.†   (source)
  • Article VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.†   (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)
  • …VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.†   (source)
  • Compulsory manual labour for all.†   (source)
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