Sentence examples for less compulsory from inspiring English sources

She discovered that a positive attitude was more or less compulsory.

He had been making the same suggestion to his seated audience throughout the show, but in a far less compulsory tone.

Blair says the pension regime makes it more or less compulsory to leave when officers are younger than normal retirement age because they could get less money the longer they leave retirement.

From Twelfth Night to Mardi Gras, which is Feb. 12 this year, daily consumption of king cake — a round of sweet dough glazed with purple, gold and green sugar — is more or less compulsory.

IT is more or less compulsory -- see Page 79 of the official movie critic's handbook -- to describe the works of the French filmmaker Robert Bresson as austere, which is not the sort of praise that sets off stampedes to the box office, even in France.

"Bump plans w/ me," he implored Mr Perry by tweet.It has been more or less compulsory for Republican presidential candidates to promise a tax cut of some sort or at least indefatigable opposition to tax increases ever since Ronald Reagan pledged a 10% reduction in marginal rates every year for three years during the campaign of 1980.

Ad libitum salad consumption was less than compulsory consumption and did not significantly affect energy intake.

ʿAbbās's curtailment of government spending benefited the poorer classes, who received tax remissions and suffered less from compulsory labour and conscription into the army.

Taxi Council SA's president, Jim Triantafyllou, said the changes would create a massive cost advantage for new entrants, who would pay less for compulsory third-party insurance.

Over the next four years, the Palestinian government intends to phase in the remaining grades and introduce broader educational reforms: more creative teaching, less rote learning, compulsory English starting from the first grade, third-language electives including Hebrew, technology classes.

Witherow summoned staff to a meeting on the 13th floor of the paper's Wapping headquarters on Monday, announcing 20 compulsory redundancies, less than 10% of the Times editorial staff, in a bid to reduce losses.