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"If it were up to me, there would be mandatory military service," said a mayor in Honduras who banned the battles.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

If reservoir levels continue to fall, it allows for larger mandatory water cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet per year in California, Arizona and Nevada — as much as 40% of the combined allotments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But mandatory insurance works only if meaningful coverage exists when those accidents happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The EU's new pact, which was nearly 10 years in the making, introduces mandatory screening and an updated database to track those arriving in the bloc.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The second principle is that backshifting is not mandatory, which means that violating the sequence-of-tense rules and keeping the reported content in the present tense is not always an error.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

By giving up the belts, he is stepping away from mandatories, the politics and the pressure to keep defending against whoever is next in line.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

There is also the issue of Usyk's mandatories, which could throw up one particularly eye-catching encounter.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022

Instead he has dealt with a string of decent but unspectacular mandatories in Hagler-esque fashion as they have shuffled tentatively into his range.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016

Also, the federal decision recognized an exception for mandatories that involve a defendant’s criminal history.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015

For if they are mandatories, we cannot deny that they may kill with their own hands; and nevertheless, not to speak of the other decisions cited above, Clar.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous