Education was declared obligatory and placed under the direction of the Christian missions.
Three years later, he declared it obligatory for all commoners to learn to read a catechism written by archbishop Olov Svebilius and then-bishop Haqvin Spegel so that they would understand the "magnificence of God".
An association of mostly jihadist clerics and Islamic scholars called the "League of Scholars in Syria" followed the call from rebel groups with a fatwa, or religious ruling, that declared it obligatory for every able-bodied Muslim to enlist in the Syrian jihad.
He signed an act of Congress to "Declare the Treaties Heretofore Concluded with France No Longer Obligatory on the United States".
The Supreme Court has weighed in only once on the meaning of the law, stepping into the fray in 2004 to declare that only international law offenses that are as "specific, universal and obligatory" as those that existed when the statute was written could give rise to a lawsuit under the statute.
Every commentator declares this to be obligatory, yet none says how.
The Colombian Constitutional Court recently declared that primary public education must be free and obligatory throughout the country, a decision brought about through the work of the Colombian human rights community with the assistance of the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic.
Writer Damon Lindelof declared that Khan's "intense gravity," particularly regarding the character's delivery of monologues, made him an obligatory character to use, even if its iconic status made the crew afraid of the fan reaction.
In his first recording since ISIS declared the establishment of the new caliphate, al-Baghdadi said that he wanted engineers, doctors, judges, and other civil society professionals to emigrate to the new state, saying, ""O Muslims everywhere, whoever is capable of performing hijrah (emigration) to the Islamic State, then let him do so, because hijrah to the land of Islam is obligatory".
