Sentence examples for to be elective from inspiring English sources

A period of work tied to academics, these colleges say, is too important to be elective.

Yet until recently, the American health care system considered gender reassignment surgery to be elective, cosmetic or experimental.

Thus, sortition for the Council of Five Hundred is not likely to have been earlier than 487, when the archonship ceased to be elective; but Athens imposed sortition for a comparable though smaller council on Ionian Erythrae in 453, surely not before there was sortition for the Council at Athens itself.

January 989 Adalbero Of Ardennes, also called Adalbero Of Reims, French Adalbéron D'ardenne, or Adalbéron De Reims (died January 989), archbishop of Reims who, by declaring the Frankish crown to be elective rather than hereditary, paved the way for the accession of Hugh Capet in place of the Carolingian claimant, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine.

While many law schools now offer courses in mediation, they tend to be elective courses and therefore many law students don't take them.

Gender reassignment surgery is considered to be elective: a surgical service that will improve the quality of life for someone with a significant medical condition, but the need isn't immediate.

The ASA status was categorized as emergent in 36 (7.2%) patients, with the remaining 464 (92.8%) considered to have been elective cases.

If the procedure was determined to be 'elective,' coverage would be offered with a temporary waiver or at a higher premium rate".

The primary intervention to prevent stillbirth is elective delivery and this carries serious risks to the mother and infant if performed at extreme preterm gestations.

In general terms, this Negotiator "has a softening effect on the speech segment conveyed to the addressee, suggesting that his response or compliance to the proposal is elective" (ibid. 392).

Before long, Ilka asks them to be her elective cousins.