mandatory

To reduce their power, the author suggested things like the reintroduction of mandatory retirement ages or the creation of a progressive tax on homes to encourage downsizing.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

"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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

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

Statistics from 2014 show a drop in mandatories that appears to track the court decisions.

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