mandatory
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Some firms impose mandatory retirement ages, typically around 65, or offer generous pension packages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
That also happens to be the Federal Aviation Administration’s mandatory retirement age for pilots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
An artificial intelligence "kill switch" which can be checked by a third-party may need to be mandatory for companies, a co-founder of one of the world's largest AI firms has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
When the state’s three-strikes law still imposed mandatory life sentences on anyone with two or more prior convictions for violent felonies, California needed places like Susanville to put its skyrocketing prison population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Nazi Party recruited children with mandatory membership in Hitler Youth groups.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
With the collapse of those mandatories today, those same defendants could easily see far different outcomes.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2016
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
Faced by this ominous situation, the "mandatories" took military counter-measures.
From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard
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