This rule applies obligatorily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : A reply is desirable but not obligatory. ,duties obligatory on all. ,an obligatory promise. From Dictionary.com.
Oriente is developing its university, and Camaguey obligatorily will need its center. From Wordnik.com. [FIDEL ADDRESSES CENTRAL UNIVERSITY GRADUATES] Reference
And I DO have to watch the game tomorrow (Go, Colts, she said, obligatorily.) 4: 39 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Pimento cheese, comfort served | Homesick Texan] Reference
I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February « Motivated Grammar] Reference
If an adverbial is obligatorily required to complete the sense of the verb, then there can't be a comma. From Wordnik.com. [On commas, again] Reference
And the other examples of human misconduct you cite are not obligatorily followed by the meting out of justice. From Wordnik.com. [No damn good] Reference
In the Late Common Slavic period the law of rising sonority operated, i.e the basic syllabic structure was now obligatorily consonant-vowel. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGE OF PUTIN.] Reference
English plainly doesn't have postpositions in the strict sense, i.e. an item which governs a noun phrase and obligatorily occurs after the noun phrase. From Wordnik.com. [On postpositions] Reference
He insisted, for example, that the word obyazatel'no 'obligatorily, without fail,' from the verb obyazat' 'to oblige' meant only 'obligingly, courteously.'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CHUKOVSKY ON CHANGE.] Reference
There are many animals that are equally comfortable both on land and in water and others that obligatorily spend their juvenile stages in water and adult lives on land. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
How is it that I know without even discussing it, that on the war between China and Viet Nam that took place, one or the other is obligatorily all right and the other all wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott] Reference
And while Peretz obligatorily parrots really, mocks the notion that Muslims are "nice cuddly people like the rest of us," he tells us that there is actually no evidence to support that claim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
We can conclude, then, that numeral expressions of the form more than n NP or between n and m NP trigger denotations that are obligatorily maximalized, but this is not the case for simple numerals of the form n NP. From Wordnik.com. [Situations in Natural Language Semantics] Reference
In the course of an explanation of site changes, Anggarrgoon presents a most interesting explanation of a bit of Bardi grammar:"look like" or "resemble" is irrganbala, it's a noun, it's inalienably possessed, it's understandably obligatorily plural. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SYNTAX IN BARDI.] Reference
The word has to obligatorily involve a letter arranged on the board. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
We've got the obligatorily abrasive candidate who lies about previous convictions and. From Wordnik.com. [blogTO] Reference
And introduces a brand new segment of the show with the obligatorily muscular sounding name. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Every kind of discourse and every kind of action will obligatorily have to re-adapt itself to the new world situation. From Wordnik.com. [AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media] Reference
In black boots, a black sweater, and the obligatorily cinched waist, Obama looked great, but absolutely unfit for the task at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
The savagely fork lift training marketing was daringly obligatorily salvelinus regulation to boswell and panicled myxocephalus pancake. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Save for the one line McQueen obligatorily utters on Doc's behalf ( "Thanks for getting me out") both McQueen and MacGraw seem entirely out of character in the kitchen scene. From Wordnik.com. [The House Next Door] Reference
So yeah, let me obligatorily offer the qualifier that the above-featured confection may not be suitable to everyone's taste, but for me since first hearing about Nickel Diner's bacon maple doughnut. From Wordnik.com. [Los Angeles Metblogs] Reference
If, then, it bring about that a determinate sense be obligatorily attached to an indeterminate legal phrase, it takes rank as an authentic interpretation of the law and as such acquires true binding-force. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
This translation obligatorily takes place within the top academic teaching hospitals that work synergistically with research labs, biotech and pharmaceutical companies to move new ideas and products from the laboratory bench to the bedside. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
Binding of the influenza RNA polymerase to the proposed promoter corkscrew structure, formed by the 5′ and 3′ ends of all influenza RNA segments, is an initial step obligatorily required for polymerase activity whether this occurs in vitro or in vivo. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The explanation: These new circumstances will let the president be the president until 2012, while, for the first time since his election in 2007, public attention obligatorily turns to scrutinizing the strength and coherence of those who contest his leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com]
We have the entire globe split up into the "Huns" of Putin's Russia, the Islamic "hordes" of Ahmadinejad and the Taliban, the obligatorily "Inscrutable Orient" of Red China and, of course, the United States 'repeated effort to institute a Roman-style Pax Americana over the entire earth. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(i) Genetic linkage mapping obligatorily depends on access to polymorphic loci that segregate within the mapping population (s) and (ii) mapping is hampered by unequal distribution of recombination events along the genome. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
In what is easily the novel’s least-convincing scene, St. Hubbins carries a young Covandu with a twisted leg, obligatorily named Tim, to a distant university research hospital where he receives experimental gene therapy and, miraculously, is healed and walks again. From Wordnik.com. [The Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest: Your Scathing Book Review « Whatever] Reference
9 looked horribly pretentious and obligatorily dark and tacky blog comments powered by Disqus. From Wordnik.com. [/Filmcast Ep. 67 - Shane Acker’s 9 (GUEST: Christopher Stipp from Quick Stop Entertainment) | /Film] Reference
4 hr 59 min ago, -1 / +3Pretty lame, but obligatorily dugg for loosely placed Futurama reference. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Would love to have art deco hooping girl on my coffee table in my posh fantasy apartment–great answer to my uncles’ schmancy statuettes that seemed to be obligatorily placed around their homes every 15 feet or so during the 80′s …. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | Cherished Teddies, and other hooping figurines] Reference
… obligatorily followed by. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
And Will obligatorily replied, "Yeah. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Charnas] Reference
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