478 examples of compulsory in sentences

The routing of idleness and ease by compulsory labor is the good counterbalancing some of the evil.

Why, then, make compulsory militarism foundational in our national life?

They have only objected to the existing form of militarism, but otherwise they have always been unanimous that military training should be compulsory and universal.

If your love was pure and lawful I am sure your angel guardian smiled upon you; and if it was not, I cannot say you have nothing to answer for, and yet I think God may have said 'She is a quadroone; all the rights of her womanhood trampled in the mire, sin made easy to heralmost compulsory,charge it to account of whom it may concern.'

The eugenists would put their trust in the encouraged breeding of the best and the compulsory sterility of the rest.

NOTES: In a subsequent stage of boyhood, when these exercises had ceased to be compulsory, like most youthful writers I wrote tragedies; under the inspiration not so much of Shakspeare as of Joanna Baillie, whose Constantine Paleologus in particular appeared to me one of the most glorious of human compositions.

Under the emperors persons were confined often on the rocky islands off the coast, or in a compulsory residence in a particular place assigned.

I wonder whether you are in favour of compulsory attendance.

I don't like it, but I do like compulsory rating, and I wish the Bill made it general and not local, and I also want the education to be gratis.

I am afraid that our armies too, which have devoted themselves to the republic, not from any compulsory levy, but of their own voluntary zeal, will be checked in their ardour, if they suppose that we are thinking of anything but instant war.

I will say nothing now of this servitude; but before I close this communication, I will give my reasons for believing, that whatever was its nature, even if it were compulsory, it cannot be fairly pleaded in justification of slavery.

Compulsory service.

And surely the slaves who are victims of cruelty, every kind-hearted slave-master would rejoice to see escaping; it would only be the compulsory giving up of fugitives, except for criminal offences, which would be expunged; each individual State would be able, if desirous, to enter into any mutual arrangement with any other State, according to their respective necessities.

It is, therefore, only with the secret ballot we have to deal at present; for although the power to vote secretly exists, it is obvious, that unless secret voting is made compulsory, it affords no protection to those who are in a position to be bribed or coerced, inasmuch as those who did bribe or coerce would insist upon the vote so obtained being given openly.

So much for compulsory secrecy.

A compulsory continuation school is therefore an absolute necessity of the age.

It would be a measure of public moral and intellectual hygiene, as justifiable as compulsory regulations in the interests of public health.

Compulsory friends.

There is sometimes a report, to be read by one of the doctors who receive salaries from the Board and attend to the various districts, and occasionally some nuisance to be considered and order taken for its compulsory removal on sanitary grounds.

Moreover, all sufferers do not want to be cheered; they often prefer to be left alone; and to be the compulsory recipient of the charity you do not require is an additional burden.

Dahomans: Signs of grief; Compulsory mourning; Amazons.

One side was against all governmental interference, such as compulsory education and the protection of children against cruel parents; the other side in favor of state interference that protected the individual in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

To the burdens of the feudal system, compulsory military service and standing armies, our ancestors objected from the very beginning.

Evidence, compulsory intrust cases; legislation upon (see Incriminating Evidence).

Had the United States at that time adopted compulsory measures and taken redress into their own hands, all our difficulties with Mexico would probably have been long since adjusted and the existing war have been averted.

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