Sentence examples for rather than voluntary from inspiring English sources

Stressing the need for universal ID cards, rather than voluntary ones, he said: "It isn't discriminatory.

In effect, that would make participation in the program coerced rather than voluntary.

"If rules were mandatory rather than voluntary it might tend to enhance the industry's effort at compliance," said Mr. Roh.

The main question is whether mandatory rather than voluntary changes in corporate governance rules on board independence have a positive impact on firm performance.

But it left millions of Mexicans believing that the governing party would use violence, rather than voluntary reform, to preserve its power.

Sasaki, H. et al. Forced rather than voluntary exercise entrains peripheral clocks via a corticosterone/noradrenaline increase in PER2::LUC mice.

Rather than a voluntary agreement, a structure was negotiated based on existing International Labour Organization (ILO) compensation conventions.

In a third survey we focused on climate policies aimed to reduce CO2 emissions rather than on voluntary conservation.

The General Assembly must vote to have security for field missions paid by regularly assessed dues rather than by voluntary contributions.

The legislation increases pressure on Washington to place mandatory caps rather than the voluntary ones favored by President Bush.

This quality makes for an experience of forced complicity rather than of voluntary absorption, but it's too emphatic to be deemed a weakness.