mandatory
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But Hrgovic, 34, has Cuba's Frank Sanchez waiting as a mandatory challenger.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Together, they have made the phone feel less like a personal possession and more like mandatory civic infrastructure.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Lawyers for the Alexanders argued that a sentence of 15 years, the mandatory minimum required by law, in prison was sufficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Smith also called for AI providers to face mandatory incident-reporting obligations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Although many women in Afghanistan traditionally chose to wear the burka, a head-to-toe covering—including his grandmother and his aunts—the Taliban now made it mandatory.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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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
Bergstrom, of the sentencing commission, said the court rulings could be a chance to improve those mandatories that appear to remain popular - ones directed against violent crime - while scrutinizing those that don’t.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015
Garnier-Pages proposed to name by special elections mandatories charged to capitulate.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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