Sentence examples for only obligatory from inspiring English sources

The only obligatory vote, however, is on the spending measure to keep the government running after the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

Gone are the days when the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire were the only obligatory stops on the campaign trail.

(Jefferson) 'WAR IN PARAMUS' It is supposedly 1970 in Barbara Dana's new family drama, but you'd hardly know it from the generic troubles on display: two clueless parents, two polar-opposite daughters, two crises that could be from any time between the 1950's and today, only obligatory references to the war and the strife of the period (1 20).

The only obligatory attribute of the settings parameter is the target attribute that defines the id of the HTML element the cluster heatmap is inserted in.

Whorf himself saw that it was only obligatory features of languages that established "mental patterns" or "habitual thought" (Whorf 1956: 139), since if it were optional then the speaker could optionally do it one way or do it the other way.

"Fighting in a legitimate war is governed by the laws that cover any obligation in Islam: it is only obligatory upon adults," Souaiaia said.

Figueres maintains that global uncoupling is not only possible but obligatory.

For a while the perplexing insistence of Britain's hip young ish) bucks that dressing as a Norwegian trawlerman was not only appropriate but obligatory at all times, had been bothering me.

But if your name is Christoph Mohn, and your family controls Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, moving to Gütersloh is not only advantageous but obligatory.

@dirkthecow shows enviable dogmatism – "It's not only permitted but obligatory" – and points out that if US Congress can do it during the president's speech, then we can do it at Waiting for Godot.

But the quality of consent should be in any case irrelevant, because we know that Mill thinks that it is impermissible to contract into slavery and that paternalistic laws that prevent such contracts are not only permissible but obligatory (OL V 11).