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How to use the word compulsory in a Sentence?

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The notion of robbing pensioners to pay back the party for the costs associated with compulsory Covid testing and other expensive pandemic measures was never going to sit well with the general populace.

Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fasting is not compulsory if you’re feeling not well. So in that regard — anything that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crew member at risk — we’re actually allowed to to eat sufficient food to prevent any escalation of lack of food or nutrition or hydration.

Sultan Alneyadi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can actually break fast, it’s not compulsory.

Sultan Alneyadi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

Registration by regulator is not compulsory for nutritionists in the UK and their title is not protected, so anybody can practice as a nutritionist.

Alamin Alkundi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can return to Plan A in England and allow Plan B regulations to expire. As a result, from the start of Thursday next week, mandatory certification will end, organizations can, of course, choose to use the NHS COVID pass voluntarily, but we will end the compulsory use of COVID safety certification in England.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Iranian athletes such as Shirin Shirzad and Shiva Amiri had to flee to the West and wrote about their experiences in the #LetUsTalk Campaign, experiences such as discrimination, compulsory hijab, and even assault and sexual harassment.

Shirin Shirzad

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is well illustrated by the inflection point in The UK when compulsory mask wearing was announced.

Ivo Vlaev

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level, imposing compulsory masks on kids, we're not doing that in Florida, OK ? We need our kids to breath. We need our kids to be able to be kids.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Justice delayed will not be justice denied, now that we have filed a federal lawsuit, let me be very clear in saying that I and this team have compulsory authority, federal subpoena authority, to get all the videos, all the tapes, all the recordings, all the records. And no district attorney, no county administrator and no state court can stop us from doing that because federal law trumps state law.

Harry Daniels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under those laws, about 60,000 people were sterilized in procedures that we would qualify today as being compulsory, forced, involuntary, and under the justifications that the people who were being sterilized were unfit to reproduce.

Alexandra Minna Stern

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Nobody's going to force anybody to do anything as a compulsory measure, but we will certainly be encouraging people to take this up.

Scott Morrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No one is going to force anybody to do anything as a compulsory measure, but we certainly will encourage people to take this up, everybody needs to understand what we are trying to achieve here.

Scott Morrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Londoners by and large will follow the rules, without too much need for police. The problem is not the issue of enforcement, the problem is the mixed messages and the confused communications, he added. The wearing of face coverings has become compulsory in dozens of countries including France, Germany, Spain, Italyand Greece, which now require coverings to be worn in public places. A woman and child wearing face masks past a coronavirus related artwork displayed on screens in the window of the Flannels clothing store on Oxford Street, in central London, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) A growing body of evidence suggests wearing face coverings brings some benefit in preventing the spread of the virus. Lack of strong evidence of their effectiveness should not be considered a problem but the evidence is accumulating that they have a part to play in reducing transmission and also in protecting the wearer.

Keith Neal

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In some cases, we are already working with the agencies and individuals identified to obtain the information we need to do our work, and inclusion on the list should in no way be interpreted to suggest they have been noncompliant, i am asking for this authority to ensure the committee has the ability to quickly and efficiently seek compulsory process should it become necessary.

Ron Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I have a strong belief that tomorrow we shall escape the poverty if soon the agriculture subject is made compulsory in our schools.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
4 years ago

As of the moment these masks are handed out in front of supermarkets it will be compulsory to wear them in supermarkets.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In order to effectively block entry for non-important purposes such as tourism, we will expand the compulsory quarantine measure to all foreigners coming in for short stays too.

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The band members who are in their 20s must enlist for compulsory military service in a few years.

Yoo Sung-man

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As part and parcel of enhancing social distancing we are making an appeal to the people of Hong Kong to stay at home as much as possible, but at the moment, we're making this appeal, we're not going for compulsory closures because Hong Kong is a free society.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a world's first to have a( compulsory) national education in that sense.

Vincenzo Cramarossa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We take the view that compulsory third-party liability insurance works well in protecting road users and that this will continue to be the case with ongoing technological developments, such as connected and autonomous vehicles.

Nicolas Jeanmart

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you can reduce herbicides by the factor of 10 it becomes very compelling for the farmer in terms of productivity. It's also eco friendly and that's clearly going to be very popular, if not compulsory, at some stage.

Richard Lightbound

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A lot of the technology is already available. It's just a question of packaging it together at the right cost for the farmers, if you can reduce herbicides by the factor of 10 it becomes very compelling for the farmer in terms of productivity. It's also eco friendly and that's clearly going to be very popular, if not compulsory, at some stage.

Richard Lightbound

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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