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required by rule- In most schools physical education is compulsory.
compulsory = required by rule
- Education is compulsory for young children in the United States.
- 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.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- Where are your free and compulsory schools?Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- The rule here is that one must be escorted up to the reading room in a lift, whose cramped space makes small talk compulsory as far as I'm concerned.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- He resumed his speech: "For more than twenty years I have amused my compulsory leisure with collecting these curious physical signatures in this town.Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Sunday before there would be a compulsory church attendance.James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
- It ought to be compulsory for all policemen to have small children.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- He had unconsciously dropped back into the phraseology of the first days of his compulsory greatness.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- As soon as he recovered, I related our compulsory visit, and detention at the Heights.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- As though something in their family genes had bestowed on them compulsory bumps that appeared randomly on different parts of their bodies.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Comrades, I beg you—do not resort to compulsory taxation.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Words like compulsory and duty were beaten into the page.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- Education is compulsory, that means required.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- That he was seriously considering following BoneMan's instructions felt at once sickening and compulsory.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- The circumstances that resulted in, shall we say, my compulsory residency here in the Keep of Time were of my own making.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- No .... then the boys would have to learn Hindi or Tamil as a compulsory second language.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- It's not compulsory, you know.George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- Compulsory protection of the vice president didn't begin until 1962, reinforcing the notion that the vice presidency is a thankless job.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
compulsory = required by rule
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