Sentence examples for less obligatory from inspiring English sources

But it is more or less obligatory in Australia – as I discovered in my first ever appearance in a grade game in Perth.

Apart from the notebook, it's all software - Crossword Compiler (more or less obligatory for submitting to the Guardian, and an excellent tool for filling grids or finding anagrams and containers); the delightful implementation of Chambers 2008 now embedded in WordWeb (itself an interestingly quirky thesaurus) and MS Word for listing and colour-coding seed clues and synonyms before grid filling.

3-D is now a more or less obligatory adornment for computer-animated family films and the high-end action franchises, although — despite rare exceptions like Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" and Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" — the process hasn't found a foothold in straight dramatic filmmaking.

As François Baudot, one of France's most acute observers of fashion, writes: "In the mid-sixties, because of the strength of the English music scene, a trip to London became the more or less obligatory rite of passage for the young foreigner".Fast-forward to the 1970s, and it was the turn of Vivienne Westwood and her lover of the time, Malcolm McLaren, the manager of a band called the Sex Pistols.

GPOY stands for "gratuitous photos of yourself" and is more or less obligatory on Facebook but deeply uncool on Tumblr.

The employment of the Germanic aspectual suffix seems to be less obligatory than the systematic and obligatory marking of the perfective and the imperfective aspect in the Slavic languages (Dal and Eroms 2014: §78).

If you're wondering if the poppy was a bit less obligatory and ubiquitous when you were younger, then it's probably not just your imagination.

This seemingly straight-forward legislation has only upped the political ante involved in the word genocide itself - as leaders search lexicons of evil for less obligatory titles: "ethnic cleansing," "civil war," or "internal strife".

In the USA, interpersonal responsiveness and caring was viewed as less obligatory and more of a personal choice [ 18].

In 2002, Roma from the region of Medjimurje sued elementary schools because 15 pupils were segregated in a class and taught 30% less than the obligatory curriculum.

Accordingly, the strength of genetic drift is proportional to the degree of host-endosymbiont interdependency, with facultative endosymbionts being less affected than obligatory endosymbionts.