Sentence examples for instead of obligatory from inspiring English sources

While are definitely guidelines to follow, giving it that personal touch will make it seem thoughtful instead of obligatory.

At a destination wedding, gift giving becomes optional instead of the more obligatory custom.

"Now we have six prayers every day (instead of the usual obligatory five) because of the funerals," Zaid says, adding that it has now become normal for a family to lose three or four members in the fighting.

(An Italian-American is the mayor, instead of the once-obligatory Irish-American or, before that, Yankee).

The most we could do would be to abandon the idea of obligatoriness as a character belonging to 'acting in a way' and think instead of something like 'it is obligatory that p', where p stands for 'A Vs'.

Quickly, the signals subtly shifted from "optional" to "obligatory," that instead of a late-night rager, this would take place in the middle of the work day.

The choice of TIVA instead of an inhaled anesthetic was obligatory for this hospital, since the gas scavenging system deployed for the anesthetic machine was insufficient.

What should be an act of vengeance -- exciting, liberating -- instead feels obligatory, as if even the characters were too jaded and weary to invest it with meaning.

Prime Minister Tone Rop announced the end of obligatory military service.

The activities included 15 minutes of obligatory mouth breathing alone, during loud reading and during exercise.

These are days of obligatory uniformity, in soccer and everything else.