Compulsory Quotations

People who have worked hard to pay their mortgage off suddenly to be clobbered with a compulsory purchase order are being offered social housing or shared equity schemes because they can't afford anything else. It's not a just system.

We have a very good team, but she feels like she has to carry everyone on her back and sometimes that's how it goes. Hopefully she can understand that she can have a so-so meet and the compulsory scores can help make up the difference. If she has a bad round, she doesn't have to feel like it's all on her.

In terms of a country making its case in the context of compulsory withdrawal, there have been few cases where compulsory withdrawal has actually come to a head. But I do believe...it is established under our rules that the representative of the government can and indeed has the right to speak to the board, or come to the board of governors, in certain cases to make their case.

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.

We think that any references to compulsory redundancies are completely inappropriate.

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Registries for cancer clinical trials exist but they are not compulsory and are far from being complete. There needs to be one comprehensive database so trials can be monitored and a wealth of information can be accessed from a central place.

If Andrew Robb is serious about a compulsory citizenship test on Australian history, customs and values, he should have the courage to require all Australians to take the test.

Each is a shared memory for people of different ages, ... It's fashionable -- almost compulsory at the TV festival -- to knock the number of repeats on TV and blame the laziness of broadcasters. But I believe there is a real public service in keeping these memories alive.