Sentence examples for tried mandatory from inspiring English sources

Dr. Golubchick was P.S. 20's principal in 1981, during the Koch administration, the last time New York City tried mandatory retention based on a test score alone.

The last time the city tried mandatory retention, the program was such a disaster -- under Mayor Edward I. Koch in the 1980's -- it became the model for what not to do.

"Other countries have tried mandatory reporting and there is no evidence to show that it is a better system for protecting children.

He said he shared his research with other legislators when he tried to fight mandatory kindergarten in the state.

It started, when a school board member in Florida tried to impose mandatory dress codes for parents at school drop-off.

In order to combat climate change, the European Union has tried to introduce a mandatory emissions-trading scheme that would force airlines to buy carbon offsets.

But, in the new cases before the Supreme Court, both fourteen-year-olds were tried in states with mandatory sentencing for murder, so jurors couldn't take their age into account.

"If we tried to make it mandatory," said Keefe, "we would be sued".

Then, host Thomas Morton goes to a radiation-plagued nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan where a doctor has tried to implement a mandatory "genetic passport".

"The U.F.W. has hijacked another bill and now they are trying to disguise mandatory arbitration as mediation," said Jasper Hempel, senior vice president of government affairs for the Western Growers Association.

Brokaw was clearly tilting against California Governor Pete Wilson when Pete was trying to eliminate mandatory sex and racial preferences in state contract awards.