Sentence examples for being elective from inspiring English sources

Of these 421 were endoprostheses and 361 arthroprostheses, 244 being elective surgery for coxarthrosis, osteonecrosis etc., and 117 performed for fracture of the femoral neck.

The surgery had been elective.

A period of work tied to academics, these colleges say, is too important to be elective.

That said, some officers said they believed that the sessions should be elective.

But the patient's role in that, of course, is elective.

A massive proportion of all this to-ing and fro-ing is elective.

"It's elective surgery, with incredible ramifications for body image," he said.

He said the tracheotomy was elective, "to assure adequate breathing," and had not been performed in an emergency.

It's elective, according to some old-fashioned rules, and invariably leads to factions and occasionally to electioneering.

The monthlong program is elective, but a record number of students took part this year — 117 from a class of 216.

Yet until recently, the American health care system considered gender reassignment surgery to be elective, cosmetic or experimental.