He pulled out the obligatory silver flask from the suitcase and took a long drink. |
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It's a caper film, with all the obligatory touchstones of the genre and everyone underacts to great effect. |
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Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers. |
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If the government enforces two legislations for two similar obligatory programs, the result would be legal uncertainty, he said. |
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Skeptical, yes, and some seemed particularly out-front radical, even beyond the obligatory flesh-piercing and rampant multiculti joie de vivre. |
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It was just a matter of the requisite number of planning meetings and then obligatory rehearsals. |
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First of all, what is the statutory or obligatory requirement for rank on a disciplinary tribunal? |
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There will be 100 to 150 people, mainly made up of friends and family and a few obligatory old ladies sucking on boiled sweets. |
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Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables. |
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The obligatory fish, curried on the bone, is served alongside the peculiarly fat rice common to the region. |
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Kel, after the obligatory fumblings and experimentation that nearly everyone goes through, had decided that on the whole, he preferred women. |
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Self-sufficient women and changing social rules mean marriage is no longer obligatory. |
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Until the final clarification of the obligatory requisites, they cannot be traded on the Stock Exchange. |
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The left-hand side of x3i presents the obligatory jog-dial navigator and a 3.5mm headphone jack. |
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Deep down though, they're still a boy band, so they still have the obligatory guitar track. |
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Newborn infants are obligatory nose breathers which is why nasal obstructions can interfere with normal feeding. |
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To reveal the offense would mean dragging his family into an obligatory vendetta. |
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A pillow is regarded as obligatory and may be made, like the death-clothes, from white calico. |
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The fourth disc is dedicated to more concert party pieces with the obligatory Sarasate and Saint Saens concertante works. |
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The material reported ranges from the obligatory porthole to cannon and shot, several pieces of eight and a Charles I gold coin. |
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While I was offering a supererogatory prayer, the imam entered the obligatory prayer. |
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It was obligatory to establish a family pedigree, going back at least several generations. |
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There's a touch of charm, but the cliched storytelling lacks that vital spark to send it soaring above the obligatory half-term movies. |
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We stood at the bar for the obligatory age watching the barwoman wow the waiting gents with her glass tossing routine. |
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We need not go on to the details of the role of Koranic recitation in other prayers, obligatory and supererogatory. |
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And it seems the obligatory pungent cigarette, clamped firmly in the corner of the mouth, is a necessary aid to concentration. |
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Of course, it is not obligatory for young heirs and heiresses to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. |
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These guitar slingers, armed with obligatory flying V axe, oozed the appropriate amount of rock attitude. |
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He supplies the obligatory introductory material before providing four meaty chapters fashioned in the style of casebooks. |
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Go and have your obligatory seafood chowder, but jump on a cable car for a more scenic view of San Francisco's neighborhoods. |
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This large area, complete with the obligatory equestrian statue, provides a formal entrance to the city from the river. |
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Get there early or be prepared for a long wait before the obligatory pat-down by the stone-faced bouncers. |
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Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory. |
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He makes the obligatory trip to the famous greyhound track to talk to the camera while the dishlickers go around in the background. |
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Every label under the sun has decided the rain boot is this season's obligatory object of affection. |
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So I suppose this entry could count as my obligatory, one and only, intoxicated post. |
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There are plenty of human-interest stories and recipes, plus the obligatory tales of gobblers that encounter or evade the guillotine. |
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His chance to move up the field came as those ahead started pulling into the pits for the obligatory wheel change. |
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The obligatory items are a very, very long scarf and a suede sheepskin or canvas gilet. |
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Then there was the obligatory annoying kid that you always get in these movies. |
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We stayed for only a few minutes, conscious of the lateness of the hour, and took the obligatory photos of each other. |
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We hit the gift shop so I could get the obligatory mug and buy a few other souvenirs for our family. |
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They used the opportunity to run new features such as news bulletins which they knew would be obligatory if they won a licence. |
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You can control suspension height and stiffness, anti-roll bar and the obligatory downforce and gear ratios. |
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Now we're graduates, people are doing the obligatory year down under, and having the mandatory farewell sessions. |
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Field research abroad for an extended period is still an obligatory rite de passage for all its practitioners. |
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She may not offer the two rak'ats nafil salat of Ihram until she is fully clean and performed the obligatory ghusl. |
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Arnold, even as he issues obligatory denials, is, unlike Bill, neither furtive nor guilty. |
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At this point, I decided to change my strategy and made the obligatory pit stop earlier than expected. |
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You half expect Jesus, Mary and the obligatory donkey to walk around a corner, and then the bell to ring for hometime. |
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A creamy sand beach fronts the hotel, complete with obligatory stands of coconut palms. |
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They took the obligatory 45 minutes to be fashionably late, and boy, did we ever love them for it. |
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It uses a by-now obligatory two-bolt detachable faceplate for easy bar swapping, and a unique opposing bolt clamp on the stem. |
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The rehearsal scenes saw him perform the obligatory and cringeworthy tortured-genius-kicks-chair-over routine. |
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Oh, yes, there are the obligatory North Indian tandoori items and some perfectly fine meat-based curries notably lacking in excess oil. |
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This is the weird cake they gave me at the obligatory awkward going-away party at my old job. |
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Despite the occasional obligatory trumpet with a mind of its own, Lucas kept the tempos lively. |
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It is obligatory on a doctor to be humble, kind, not forgetful of Allah's blessings on him, grateful to Him, seeking His help and aid. |
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Until recently long-haired men risked being picked off the street for an obligatory short back and sides. |
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It consists of tequila, cointreau, sour mix, fresh lime and crushed ice, and comes in the obligatory salted glass. |
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Today's fish choice was haddock, and was offered with the obligatory chips and a choice of salad, peas or baked beans. |
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Celebrate your first spotting with a crumble, then progress to the obligatory and unsurpassable gooseberry fool. |
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Neither governments nor courts have accepted the Universal Declaration as an instrument with obligatory force. |
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The command gains obligatory force because it is judged worthy of obedience. |
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He serves as her obligatory romantic interest, the guy who saves her from self-destruction. |
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Treatment prognosis is mixed with thyroidectomy usually recommended with subsequent lifelong obligatory thyroid replacement therapy. |
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Although the obligatory Yorkshire pudding seems as antiquated as the bearskins worn by the Royal guards. |
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For the men it was the rough serge trousers with the obligatory braces and, of course, the caipin! |
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He unleashed a torrent of classic West stage shenanigans, followed by the obligatory mic drop. |
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Being born in the US bestows US citizenship on the offspring and eliminates the obligatory military service requirement. |
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It insists on the introduction of obligatory rules for anti-discriminatory conduct in the job descriptions of schoolteachers. |
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The second chapter treats the apparently obligatory discussion of natural revelation, before the author returns to the topic of culture. |
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Thursday calls for the obligatory post telling everyone what's in this week's treeware. |
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Whoever considers the shortness of hope and is ignorant of the term, makes it obligatory. |
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It is obligatory to explain the mistakenness of this expression and to guide them to what is correct. |
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There is also fierce opposition to obligatory teaching of the Corsican language. |
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Cotton production was obligatory as early as 1925 and had an irreversible influence on population movements and the politicization of residents. |
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This week I will be doing my obligatory trolley dash amongst the beauty counters to scoop up the latest lotions to retain my youthful complexion. |
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There are the car races and hand-brake turns, not forgetting the obligatory ghetto blaster. |
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The protest was the first public display of dissent by women since the 1979 revolution, when the new regime enforced obligatory veiling. |
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Romney, in his obligatory red, white, and blue uniform, did have some well-crafted zingers, but none were particularly poetic. |
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The dark, almost black oak trees from the ancient Monlezun forest in the Armagnac region are obligatory for any serious Armagnac. |
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I actually quit prefacing my Ralph Nader screeds with the obligatory he-gave-us-the-seatbelt boilerplate years ago. |
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Holidays together ought to be obligatory for couples thinking of wedlock. |
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I had to wear the obligatory bathing cap provided by the baths. |
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In the 1880s Republicans voted for reforms that created an elementary school system with secular, obligatory, and free education as the centrepiece of a laicized state. |
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There's no logical or grammatical reason to forbid splitting infinitives, and sometimes it's even obligatory, as Arnold Zwicky and Geoff Nunberg pointed out here last spring. |
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It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark. |
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The rules eliminated the obligatory signing of a complicated contract and instead offered customers the opportunity to sign a simple receipt of the transaction instead. |
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Might we think that there are times when it might permissible, perhaps obligatory, for us to do something that runs afoul of the rule of law in the name of a greater good? |
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But the Constitution, which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. |
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It is almost obligatory for any new Edinburgh resident to wax lyrical over the cultural backdrop that the castle, the festival and the tattoo give to the city. |
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When I was a kid in the fifties, the whole of our primary school would gather on the lawn while a bugle played off a scratchy record and the Head read the obligatory poem. |
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They are only obligatory if it is possible to fulfill them, so the first principle to recall is that it is a mitzvah for people to have children only if they can. |
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There were the obligatory moans and groans from the entire class. |
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Although the fasts of the month of Muharram are not obligatory, yet one who fasts in these days out of his own will is entitled to a great reward by Allah Almighty. |
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There was also the obligatory shopping spree at the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store across from Central Park. |
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On our visit the restaurant was decked out for the festive season, with myriad glinting fairy lights and the obligatory sprinkling of canned snow around the windows. |
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We all start stamping our feet and calling for the obligatory encore. |
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Regulations need to be introduced and strictly enforced to make it obligatory for workplace testing where there is evidence of a high risk from radon. |
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With all the attention lavished on big cases by the media, have such appearances become obligatory and, as a result, changed the rules that lawyers must follow? |
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It has been a demanding day, but demanding is not obligatory. |
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And then of course, as is apparently compulsory these days, there's the obligatory shock twist ending that doesn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny. |
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I can't by morals and obligatory familial nature allow you to keep him wondering and locked in his room without conversation or band practice for any more days. |
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Legal experts equate obligatory drug testing to suspicionless searches, and doubt any rational court would allow for the testing of entire student bodies. |
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Then we have the obligatory fashion section, which again, is well laid out and quite fun if you enjoy playing dress up and trying on a different identity every week. |
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She revels in her emotional, moral and intellectual ineptitude, in the obligatory tiny little dress, prancing around on the nearest available red carpet, loving it. |
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After the old fella collecting money, we passed the old guy at the door greeting customers, with the obligatory vest, badges and balloons for the kids. |
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But after the usual obligatory rejection of an initial approach, the markets expected an increase in the offer to match shareholders' higher expectations. |
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Legislation should make it obligatory for credit card statements to give how long it would take to pay the current debt off if only the minimum payment is made each time. |
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The glass lifts rush up to the summit of this slim building at such a rate I regretted having a second helping of waffles with the obligatory maple syrup at breakfast. |
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Bob and Charlotte's paths keep crossing leading to various adventures around the hotel as well as the obligatory visits to sushi bars, karaoke and pachinko. |
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Chasing girls, a bit of skylarking, the obligatory chugalug at the bar. |
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Then there was the obligatory gooey, melting chocolate dish, imaginatively packaged here in little purses of phyllo and dusted with powdered sugar. |
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In Hungary the religious congregations and their priests or ministers were supported by their respective mother churches through an obligatory religious tax. |
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The provision of the law of 4 Frimaire year 2, which makes obligatory the usage of the decimal division of day and of its parts, is suspended indefinitely. |
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But not before the obligatory Meet The Parentsstyle pre-nuptial disasters and gross outs. |
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And in true comic style, all members of the four-a-side teams wore the obligatory fezzes during play. |
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The feasts of these three saints were made obligatory throughout the Eastern Empire by Leo VI the Wise. |
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The fourth type, quadradic solidarity, with four obligatory constituents, is not well attested. |
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Indeed Ruth Lea included the view of the obligatory London cabbie complete with dark references to Froggies, Wops, Gerries, etc. |
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Until 1973, school children had to pass Modern Irish to achieve a Leaving Cert and studying the subject remains obligatory. |
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Prayer is obligatory for all Muslims except those who are prepubescent, menstruating, or in puerperium stage after childbirth. |
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Every Greek drama ends with an exodos. It is obligatory that the stage be left empty. It is left by the actors and the chorus. |
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It can be used to give advice or to describe normative behavior, though without such strong obligatory force as must or have to. |
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Use of genitive for negation is obligatory in Slovene, Polish and Old Church Slavonic. |
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His arms were not the elbowless sausages with baby-fists that seem obligatory among sumo wrestlers. |
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This day always falls within Lent, during which there are no obligatory memorials. |
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Housed in the beached tugboat Danie Hugo near the jetty, the Tug is something of an obligatory destination for any dinner-goer in Swakopmund. |
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There are several obligatory postmodernist quirks, such as the wildly overscaled sculptural excrescences at the roof line. |
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Celibacy, as a consequence of the duty to observe perfect continence, is obligatory for priests in the Latin Church. |
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Appointment of a prayer leader is considered desirable, but not always obligatory. |
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On taking the podium, McCain offered the obligatory grace notes, including a good-natured comment that Roever was a tough act to follow. |
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Parasitologically myiasis could be classified as obligatory, facultative or accidental. |
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His activity in this respect varied according to circumstances, and the custom ceased to be obligatory after Pye's death. |
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Sawm is not obligatory for several groups for whom it would constitute an undue burden. |
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Dog-detective Charlie, with obligatory magnifying glass and deerstalker hat, occasionally appears to point out details viewers might miss. |
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Other countries with obligatory military service, such as Syria, have similar requirements. |
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Attendance was obligatory, and failure to participate was treated as a moral fault, subject to consistorial discipline and censure. |
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Fasting six days of Shawwal after the obligatory fast of Ramadan is Sunnah mustahab, not wajib. |
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The origins and motive of the boogieman have no place in Dunstan's viscera-drenched film, which culminates in the obligatory set-up for a sequel. |
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He doggedly retained a regional accent at a time when the plummy tones of Received Pronunciation were considered obligatory. |
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Historically the human lineage, evidently only at some point in the past in the Australopithecines, assumed obligatory upright posture. |
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External aspects manifest in regular, observable behaviour, but is not obligatory. |
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The actor flexes his comic muscles as well as his abs and pecs, which are flaunted in an obligatory scene of toplessness to prove he hit the gym for the role. |
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It seems, however, that the use of momentative suffixes is not obligatory in expressing telicity, because the same clauses may usually take an underived equivalent also. |
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It can be seen that the specification above supports polyglottism, but a status distinction is made between obligatory languages and optional language in brackets. |
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I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform. |
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Here obligatory inflections are realized on the auxiliary, while the lexical verb is either unmarked or marked as nonfinite, gerundive, or participial. |
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The origins and motive of the titular boogieman have no place in Dunstan's viscera-drenched film, which culminates in the obligatory set-up for a sequel. |
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Nevertheless, the art of fighting on foot was an obligatory part of military education which even a charioted knight could ignore at his own peril. |
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The test is obligatory if further education is to be attended. |
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The obligatory right-wing radio blowhard soon entered the picture. |
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Note, this is not an obligatory identification card for citizens. |
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Instead of believing that these roles are forced upon them, each uses the obligatory requirement as a strength in their relationship with each other. |
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By that time, the boyars had largely merged with the new elite, who were obligatory servitors of the state, to form a new nobility, the dvoryanstvo. |
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Musically, Prague caters for all styles too, and among the obligatory stopping points are the Roxy, Akropolis, Cross Club or the multimedia space MeetFactory. |
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Mr. Bernstein explained that this was not obligatory. All he meant was that the suit was good enough to be married in, or for that matter to be buried in. |
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English, while far behind French in terms of number of speakers, is the first foreign language of choice, since French is obligatory, among educated youth and professionals. |
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Here, the actor flexes his comic muscles as well as his abs, which are flaunted in an obligatory scene of toplessness to prove he hit the gym for the role. |
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Internal aspects are the reflective attitude on the part of adherents toward certain behaviours perceived to be obligatory, according to a common standard. |
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There are, however, more public holidays celebrated in Greece than are announced by the Ministry of Labour each year as either obligatory or optional. |
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Technical standards are usually voluntary, like ISO 9000 requirements, but may be obligatory, enforced by government norms, like drinking water quality requirements. |
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In addition, if non-cohesive soil is categorised as unfavourable, completive investigations should be obligatory to exclude untypical failure types such as internal erosion. |
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Anyone in IT who's read the headlines understands that encrypting data is moving from optional to obligatory, and anybody who's not thinking about it now should be. |
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Even popular Nags Head, with its nest of hotels and obligatory honky-tonks, is a sparse seaside town compared to resorts such as Virginia Beach and Myrtle Beach. |
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