Sentence examples for had been compulsory from inspiring English sources

The bank said 1,000 redundancies out of 15,000 in the last three years had been compulsory.

Dissenting voices were heard only on Yik Yak, an app that lets people sitting near each other share anonymous messages, where some students grumbled that their attendance had been compulsory.

RFID tags had been compulsory on horses for six years when the scandal broke in January 2013, revealing how complex and obscure the meat processing industry could be, and the inadequacy of certain controls.

Even if the countries had agreed to the 4 percent target, it would not have been compulsory.

Primary education begins at age seven, lasts for seven years, and has been compulsory since 1987.

Since the early 1990s the first nine years have been compulsory.

Since 2009 diesel particulate filters (DPFs) have been compulsory in new diesel cars.

Since 1999, instruction in Welsh has been compulsory for students in state schools up to the age of sixteen.

Diesel particulate filters (DPFs) have been compulsory in new diesel cars since 2009 but can become clogged and cause breakdowns, particularly for city drivers.

At times the badge has been compulsory for the young and the dissident, with mass CND protests in the Sixties and Eighties expressing the national mood.

It has been compulsory in the EU since 1979 to stun all animals before slaughter in order to make them insensible to pain.