Education is mandatory in many countries.
It is mandatory that you attend this meeting.
Education is mandatory in many countries.It is mandatory that you attend this meeting.
Education is mandatory in many countries.It is mandatory that you attend this meeting.
Mandatory means that something absolutely MUST happen or occur. You could use it in a sentence like: "It's mandatory that I need to go to baseball practice." or "It's mandatory that we put that piece on last."
Example sentence - The meeting was mandatory for everyone in the sales department.
A cooking course should be mandatory in schools
She was forced into mandatory (required) retirement.
As pedophilia is not a crime, and pedophiles are people with pedophilia, there is no mandatory sentence for pedophiles in any state of the United States.
No, that is why it is called a MANDATORY minimum sentence.
Overtime is mandatory at many factories.
The inclusion of raw data should not be considered mandatory.
From the stand point of the criminal justice system it's not only used, but requested, ordered, and received. A presumptive sentence is used when a person is convicted of a crime that has a specific sentence. Presumptive sentencing is similar to a mandatory sentence, however a mandatory sentence is a minimum were a presumptive sentence has no maximum or minimum. It only carries a specific fine, program enrollment, or amount of incarceration time. From a grammar stand point you could use the statement "the defendant received a presumptive sentence." I hope this answers the question well enough.
No. He does not have that discretion. If the legislature sets a certain MANDATORY sentence for a particular offense, the judge MUST uphold the law, not over-rule it.