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The plan allows for much larger mandatory cuts over the next decade if necessary to prevent the river’s drought-depleted reservoirs from reaching critically low levels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Nondefense discretionary spending, defense spending, plus Medicaid, CHIP, healthcare subsidies and other mandatory programs are already projected to shrink in relation to the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

It called for bar codes and other mandatory design features on ballot envelopes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

"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

First Friday attendance is mandatory, unless you are, like my sister, an “essential laborer.”

From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard

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

Determinations for those mandatories can stay in the hands of judges, meaning that repeat offender statutes such as the state’s three strikes law remain constitutional.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015

They thus had a whole week in which to frame a mandate and select their mandatories.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary