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Example sentences for: mandatory

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They play a shell game: Take this part of the Social Security tax and convert it into a mandatory savings contribution; take today's benefit and divide it into two parts; give everybody this new account and that minimum guarantee; take this shell and put it there and bring that shell over here, and--hey presto!
. The piece then raises the host of moral debates associated with the global onset of pop culture--should Beverly Hills, for example, really be mandatory viewing for half the world's population?
Conscription remains mandatory, but more than 80 percent of young Russians avoid it.
The dailies note that it puts the first-ever mandatory limits on greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, assigning various countries different output reductions to be implemented from 2008 to 2012.
A black-and-white photograph briefly recalls happier times, then makes way for this young professional (she's wearing the mandatory blue suit) describing her grandmother's degeneration, her increasing frailty and the consequent reversal of roles: "I had to carry her and hold her as I remember her always carrying me."