6 sentences with 'compulsory'
Example sentences and phrases with the word compulsory and other words derived from it.
• « After elementary school, Arne Treholt did his compulsory military service in Norway, studied political science at the University of Oslo and entered politics as a member of the youth wing of the Norwegian Labor Party. »
• « Some Spartans had become wealthy and bought their sons from the formerly compulsory life in the barracks, while others were too poor to train. »
• « All the wealth that came into the Church, from a compulsory tax called the tithe, was siphoned off to the top of the institutional Church, and many of the high-ranking priests lived like princes as a result. Morality in this scenario was, predictably, lax. »
• « In the 1870s and 1880s, British feminists led by Josephine Butler attacked the Contagious Diseases Act, which subjected prostitutes to compulsory gynaecological inspections (but did not require male clients of prostitutes to be examined), and came to the radical conclusion that prostitution was simply the most obvious example of a condition that applied to virtually all women. »
• « Hitler regarded the fact that Germany and Austria were separate countries as a terrible historical mistake. He hated the weak Austrian government and fled to Germany rather than do his compulsory military service in Austria. »