Sentence examples for mandatory across from inspiring English sources

Unlike other Nice pronouncements, they are not mandatory across the NHS.

If the new standards are agreed to be effective from a practical and nutritional standpoint, the secretary of state has agreed to make them mandatory across all types of school," the authors write.

Following trials in Indonesia and Uganda in 2008, it was decided to make Broa mandatory across BAT's global leaf-growing locations and by 2010 all 19 had completed assessments and agreed actions plans.

Comprehensive medicine information leaflets for patients are now mandatory across the European Union.

Spohr seemed to admit that no special psychological test was mandatory across Europe.

Out in the real world of plastic cards, chip-and-pin has been mandatory across much of the EU for 10 years.

Pilots, gate agents and others were quick to blame furloughs caused by mandatory across-the-board budget cuts, but the Federal Aviation Administration said it was too soon to tell.

There is also the Medicare "doc fix," which blocks cuts to doctor reimbursement rates; extending emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed; the mandatory across-the-board spending cuts set for Jan . 1 and the country's hitting the debt ceiling.

An article on Tuesday about the positions of President Obama and Congressional leaders on the recent financial turmoil misstated the amount of mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts called for in the new compromise budget law if Congress does not enact another round of deficit reduction by the end of the year.

This year's mandatory across-the-board budget cuts to U.S. research agencies have translated into less money for academic scientists and delays in their research projects.

But Obama is trying to convince congressional Republicans to abandon the mandatory across-the-board cuts, part of a 2011 budget deal gone bad, and embrace a "balanced" plan to shrink the deficit that includes tax increases.