Sentence examples for nearly compulsory from inspiring English sources

They've had to negotiate nearly compulsory changes of style without abandoning the audiences that value them most.

The series became nearly compulsory viewing when it was broadcast here this autumn; the episodes averaged 8.8 million viewers, an audience share of more than 30 percent.

The power of the unclothed body to shock is waning, perhaps as an effect of the proliferation of frank imagery in film and advertising and an increase in Internet sites like the all-nude Webcast nakednews.com, or such cable television shows as "Sex and the City," or "Oz," where nakedness is common enough to seem nearly compulsory.

In the UK, the registration of births, deaths and marriages was made compulsory in 1875 (nearly 40 years after the General Register Office was set up as a central point to collate all this information).

Nearly three-quarters of schools administered the compulsory tests, the Department for Education said.

Compared with the reference group, White British service users, the most highly significant difference in compulsory detention rates was for the Black African group, in whom the overall odds of admission were nearly three times as high.

Workers are striking after the union rejected a four-year deal offered by Network Rail worth £500 this year and three years of increases matching RPI inflation as well as a no compulsory redundancy commitment to December 2016 for nearly 16,000 staff.

Nearly another 40%% of the youngsters who complete compulsory school attend grammar school (so-called Gymnasium in German), which prepares them to further education such as university.

The age restrictions under 9-year compulsory education have been implemented for nearly three decades, but no previous studies have attempted to explain the differences in youths' growth and development from this aspect.

For nearly 50 years in Mexico, they note, political participation meant compulsory attendance at a PRI rally, compulsory membership in a PRI trade union or maybe pleading with a PRI official for basic services repeatedly promised.

Education is compulsory through primary school, and statistics showed nearly total compliance in Baghdad throughout the 1980s.