Fortunately, there is another possibility, called "mandated choice," under which people must indicate their preference.
For example, he said, for most questions, the seller must indicate yes, no, unknown or not applicable.
A measure must indicate where the necessary revenues are to be found, or what other programme is to be cut.
Her solicitor said that "the willingness of the Metropolitan police to pay substantial damages must indicate their recognition that she sustained serious psychiatric injury".
Threatening to kill a prisoner is not torture; "the threat must indicate that death is 'imminent.' " Beating prisoners is not torture either.
Under the Takeover Panel's terms, Global must indicate a "firm intention" to bid for GCap by 5pm on March 5 or walk away for six months.
(The World Bank lists Vietnam's population as 85m, so the ministry's chart must indicate subscriptions and not subscribers. The growth is impressive, regardless).
Still, for a band that started out as an underground affair, all broken-down rumble and feral distortion, that statistic must indicate strange times indeed.
Attendance is setting records, and both Miss Universe and Playboy's Playmate of the Millennium choose to date baseball players, which must indicate success.
That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of "diagnosable" to the final edit of "so what?" must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness.
The Takeover Panel said that Global, the privately owned group chaired by former ITV boss Charles Allen, must indicate a "firm intention" to bid for GCap by 5pm on March 5 or walk away for six months.
