Sentence examples for be made optional from inspiring English sources

Many students and their families have also called for the English paper – a stumbling block for many without access to private tuition – to be made optional.

After the council, the number of priests seeking to leave the priesthood to marry vastly increased, and many European and American Catholics began to urge that celibacy for priests be made optional.

Aware, perhaps, that his offbeat plan was drawing unwelcome attention to a state that has spent the modern era in a permanent defensive crouch thanks to a Mormon religious culture that many view as joyless and eccentric, the lawmaker suggested that 12th grade — that ritual time out from the march of time itself — be made optional rather than nonexistent.

Dr. Atkinson's decision, which would apply to both in-state and out-of-state students, came several years after a university faculty committee urged that the SAT's be made optional to increase the number of black and Hispanic students gaining admission.

If priests really want to improve their image, they should not bother to write letters demanding that celibacy be made optional -- which will be dismissed by their bishops and the Vatican -- but to make every effort to upgrade their work -- especially their sermons.

The board passed an ordinance Sept. 7 following a federal ruling in Indiana that called for the previously mandatory 48-hour detainers placed on immigrant offenders pending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) review to be made optional.

As in many other cities, helmet use was made optional, in part to encourage greater participation.

Languages have collapsed at GCSE since they were made optional at the age of 14.

Steve Nelson Head, The Calhoun School New York, Sept. 22, 2008 • To the Editor: Who benefits when the SATs and ACTs are made optional?

Confession to God in the presence of a priest is not obligatory, and celibacy of the clergy was made optional in some Old Catholic churches.

The overtures including allowing the broader recitation of the Tridentine rite, a service that was made optional in the 1960s and includes a Good Friday prayer calling for the conversion of Jews.