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252 examples of Mandatory in a sentence

Today, Palestinians are seeking statehood on a mere 22% of the territory that had been part of mandatory Palestine until Israel was unilaterally established on areas much larger than those awarded by UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1947.
There are many policy suggestions to address fiscal sustainability and workforce shortages already under consideration, including higher retirement ages and mandatory contributions, together with lower benefits.
One obvious condition is mandatory CO2 “sequestration” (removing CO2 from the air and storing it deep underground).
Another obvious condition is mandatory timetables for restoring strip mines and tailing ponds to their natural condition.
And in Germany, mandatory worker representation on the board of directors, together with substantial job security, effectively gives employees many of the attributes of owners.
A policy of mandatory active retirement would avoid some of the pitfalls of the standard approach.
In 2004, for example, Guangdong Province had to raise the mandatory minimum wage by as much as 20% to attract workers from other regions.
But public opinion does not seem to matter if the issue is mandatory disclosure of political spending by corporations.
But conservative groups are shortsighted in their opposition to mandatory disclosure of such information.
I doubt that a mandatory disclosure rule alone could fix the problem.
Given the current dependence of taxation on consumption and the ongoing current-account adjustment, the tax on financial transactions, in particular, will be vital to buy time for mandatory public expenditures to be reviewed.
But it is also accomplished by privatization of social security such that the mandatory contributions are taken out of the hands of government and invested for the future rather than dissipated in current spending.
The possibility that US President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress will fail to reach a compromise before mandatory deep spending cuts and tax increases take effect on January 1 is very real.
When a woman is caught, although she is often a non-violent first time offender, she faces a harsh mandatory minimum sentence.
In reality, the half-kilo of cocaine brought a ten-year mandatory sentence.
There is no way to offset the growth of the mandatory programs by slowing the growth of defense and other discretionary outlays.
Given the global market tumult of the past ten days, examining the historical data about the performance of stock markets is a mandatory sobering experience for investors old and new and everywhere.
Nor did the Swiss react with a “war on drugs” and massive funding for more policing, more jails, and mandatory prison sentences.
Australia, for example, has made voting mandatory, with a small fine for noncompliance; as a result, it achieves 94% voter turnout, on average, compared to 57% in the 2012 US presidential election.
Likewise, Switzerland long used mandatory military service and mountainous geography as hard-power resources for deterrence, while making itself attractive to others through banking, commercial, and cultural networks.
Since the mid-1990’s, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have adopted the so-called three-pillar pension system, comprising a publicly managed, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pillar; a privately managed, mandatory, defined-contribution pillar; and a supplementary, voluntary private pillar.
Unlike funding from, say, the US Agency for International Development, recipients are not burdened with consultancy fees or mandatory spending evaluations.
Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.
The 1967 war placed all of mandatory Palestine (as well as Sinai and the Golan) under Israeli military occupation.
Moving towards this benchmark could be aided by two measures: first, a phase-out of nuclear power plants not according to their age, but to their risk profile, however schematically this is calculated; and, second, introduction of mandatory cross-national insurance for nuclear accidents.
Perhaps every country should vote in the UN General Assembly on how to proceed; the option receiving the most votes – with a possible mandatory minimum requirement, such as requiring an alternative to win a majority or some higher number of votes – would prevail.
But do countries somehow automatically turn illiberal just because they make certain measures mandatory?
In Greece, despite the fact that child vaccination has been mandatory since 1999 (unless a child has a certified medical condition), Xanthos has advocated an opt-out option for parents who do not want to vaccinate their children.
In response to the recent protests, the government has proposed an additional risk-sharing scheme: some (thus far undecided) part of a five-percentage-point increase in the mandatory retirement savings rate, to be paid by employers, will go to a “solidarity fund” that can finance transfers to people receiving low pensions.
Importantly, the report, “Research and Development to Meet Health Needs in Developing Countries,” recommends a comprehensive approach, including mandatory funding contributions from governments for research on developing countries’ health needs; international coordination of health-care priorities and implementation; and a global observatory that would monitor where needs are greatest.
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