He meant simple refusal to share in official, even mandatory lies.
But our public speech is still full of mandatory lies and half-truths, which enforce themselves by taking advantage of fear -- the fear of what opponents will say, the fear of seeming unrealistic or irresponsible.
Among other things, the film's success is a reminder of the thesis, expounded brilliantly by the late historian Eugen Weber in "Peasants Into Frenchmen," that France was unified from a diverse array of regions, in many of which French was not spoken until free mandatory public lay education became national policy in the late nineteenth century.
If that number isn't reached by 13 February, he said there would be mandatory lay-offs.
The British judges did form a "provisional view" that the precedent case at the ECJ, known as Digital Rights Ireland, "does not lay down mandatory requirements of EU law with which national legislation must comply.
That's because Congress' annual budget resolution doesn't have the force of law, and so can't alter the entitlements and other mandatory programs that lie at the heart of the government's long-term fiscal problems.
Republican legislators and candidates, not having had the Sponsor a Uterus option before, have spent most of their time this year benevolently sponsoring uteri by proxy: Informed consent; rape sonograms -- oops, sorry medically unnecessary, expensive vaginal probes, mandatory waiting periods, lying to women for their own good.
This violated a defendant's constitutional right to a trial by jury.The problem lay in the mandatory nature of the guidelines, which might, for instance, require a sentencing judge to increase a drug dealer's punishment in line with the size of his stash.
Eleven years of Army life lay between him and the mandatory retirement age of sixty-four.
The airline cannot even afford to lay its workers off, because of the cost of mandatory benefits.
Or, since diagnosis is almost entirely dependent on self-reporting, the pilot could evade mandatory diagnostic scrutiny by lying — or, as Lubitz apparently did, by confining his queries about cockpit doors and suicide methods to a search engine.
