If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) English musical conductor]
In most schools physical education is compulsory. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term compulsory, if it has any meaning at all, means that the person has no choice about it. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology Today] Reference
Lusins: Doesn't like the word compulsory, antithetical to the notion of copyright. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log] Reference
And no wonder, when you consider just what is involved in compulsory school mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [An image problem? « Gin&Comment] Reference
He also sticks to the principle of a long-term compulsory additional contribution, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
She also proposed long-term compulsory enrolment to community-based treatment programmes after release from prison. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
After all, Israel has a rare commodity: more or less its entire young female population spends some time in compulsory military service. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Leave it to the Professionals] Reference
However, History is never an optional subject for the French Canadian, or any part of it; it is compulsory from the first to the last year. From Wordnik.com. [Was The King Right] Reference
What sort of acts, then, should be called compulsory?. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
"Elder Brothers," who may be more accurately termed compulsory advisers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
There are other problems with the notion of compulsory "just compensation.". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii Reporter] Reference
In the third place, we always connect with slavery the idea of compulsory labor. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
These are what we may call compulsory constituencies, and we know all about them. From Wordnik.com. [The English Constitution] Reference
This is called a compulsory purchase annuity (CPA) and all the proceeds are taxable. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
"At the moment we have no plans to activate the notion of compulsory community service.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
States in 1803; recalling the compulsory cession of the same to France by Spain in 1800. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815] Reference
We are living Reagans famous “everything that isn’t compulsory is prohibited” joke. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » What is a zoobow?] Reference
It recommended ending the intervention's main plank, known as compulsory income management. From Wordnik.com. ['Tough Love' in the Outback] Reference
Fundamentally, objections to the notion of compulsory annuities revolve around three central themes. From Wordnik.com. [Fool.co.uk - Headlines] Reference
The new patent regulations providing for what is called compulsory licensing aren't unique to China. From Wordnik.com. [Business Sours on China] Reference
Besides, the idea of compulsory pledging goes against what this country stands for in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Out In Left Field] Reference
India in the mid-1970s not only entertained the idea of compulsory sterilization, but moved toward implementing it. From Wordnik.com. [Lex Communis] Reference
All the powers of society were bent on lavish naval expenditure, and of imposing the idea of compulsory service on a reluctant people. From Wordnik.com. [Liberalism] Reference
Brokerage charges, along with Marketable Securities Tax, form part of the so-called compulsory charges applicable to a unit trust fund. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Romney will be savaged because he adopted a plan that made ObamaCare and the notion of compulsory insurance the individual mandate popular. From Wordnik.com. [Mitt Romney needs a better defense for RomneyCare] Reference
Primary education is compulsory, that is to say, all children are compelled by law to attend school from their sixth to their fourteenth year. From Wordnik.com. [The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany] Reference
And in a culture where male chauvinism is practically compulsory, that is precisely what has happened in the case of the Malik-Mirza marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Voting at 16 and a fully elected House of Lords are all reforms I can happily sign up to, but I am more cautious on the idea of compulsory voting. From Wordnik.com. [Getting the vote out] Reference
"I propose returning to the idea of compulsory treatment for alcoholism," Nurgaliyev said, adding that alcohol-related crime was an acute problem. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty] Reference
But disruption to afternoon peak-hour services may be avoided, with the IRC calling a compulsory conference at noon to try to resolve the dispute. From Wordnik.com. [National Nine News] Reference
Would it give me, I wonder, a hextry "compulsory" two quid a week?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891] Reference
Closing the gap is not going to be the result of some kind of compulsory service. From Wordnik.com. [The Activist Soldier] Reference
The federal government is encroaching into areas where it has no constitutional authority, such as compulsory health care. From Wordnik.com. [Martin O'Malley (D)*] Reference
Various issues such as compulsory community service, affirmative action and self-determination were discussed in the meeting. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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