Compulsory

//kəmˈpʌlsəɹi//

"Compulsory" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The scholar regards so-called compulsory education as useless.

Attendance is compulsory for all members.

In Japan, attendance at elementary and junior high school is compulsory.

He regards so-called compulsory education as useless.

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

Compulsory military service exists in Turkey.

Elementary education shall be compulsory.

English is a compulsory subject.

Some countries make voting compulsory.

Compulsory military service is in most countries a thing of the past.

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The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.

They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.

Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.

Such compulsory measures are limited.

There will be financial and other incentives to encourage voluntary recruitment, but if that fails to find the numbers a compulsory nationwide call-up will be reconsidered.

Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance.

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