Sentence examples for system of mandatory from inspiring English sources

We maintain a system of mandatory detention of boat people.

"I am unalterably opposed to the system of mandatory minimums," he said.

At an acrimonious summit in June, EU leaders failed to agree a new system of mandatory quotas for refugees.

The most bruising battle was over whether Europe should adopt a new system of mandatory quotas for sharing refugees.

There is nothing new in the demands for a new system of mandatory quotas spreading refugees across the EU.

Prosecutors prefer the current system of mandatory terms because it gives them most of the real sentencing power.

The governor's counsel, James McGuire, gave an hourlong briefing today on the new offer to Assemblymen Jeffrion L. Aubry and Keith Wright, influential Democrats who have called for easing the state's system of long mandatory drug sentences.

In the federal system, the threat of mandatory minimums is commonly used both to push defendants to become informants and to convince them to plead guilty without going to trial.

The competitive entrance examination, merit system of advancement, and mandatory retirement at specified ages through a rigorous "selection up or selection out" procedure have been widely instituted.

For example, the UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 dictates that a safe system of work is mandatory.

At the end of our first meeting one member, Bob Epstein, a Berkeley engineer who started the database company Sybase, said, "the single most important thing we must do is to encourage California policymakers to develop a market-based system of incentives and mandatory caps on greenhouse gases".