• Its report builds on research last year which claims the public may support reforming the penalty for murder to make life imprisonment the maximum sentence rather than mandatory.

    BBC: Murder: Life sentence unjust, says lawyers' group

  • Its report builds on research published last year which claimed the public may support reforming the penalty for murder to make life imprisonment the maximum sentence rather than mandatory.

    BBC: Lord Chief Justice urges free vote on murder reform

  • P. stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than the mandatory machine recount performed several days later.

    CNN: Bush's Contested Lead

  • More importantly, a successful voluntary carbon market moves green low carbon economic activity into the free market domain, rather than the mandatory one we currently find ourselves in.

    FORBES: BY DENNIS POSADAS

  • Fifa had preferred to treat offences on a case-by-case basis rather than implementing the mandatory suspension.

    BBC: Fifa signs up to anti-doping code

  • With regard to the sequestration process, it was designed mainly to cut discretionary funding rather than so-called mandatory entitlement programs.

    FORBES: Republicans Target Their Own Voters In Defense Budget Switch

  • The measures in their current form still leave a lot of questions open, and as a result regulators have reportedly been flooded with comments on the draft measures from companies seeking to influence the process now rather than wait to comply with more unfavorable mandatory rules in the future.

    FORBES: China: Seeking Balance In Regulating Data Privacy

  • Instead of stretching his talents, Jones slipped into cruise control, honouring meaningless mandatory defences of his various titles rather than mixing it with live opponents.

    BBC: Jones out to prove his greatness

  • He realizes that a budget deal is mandatory, but he will push any compromise towards higher taxes rather than lower outlays.

    FORBES: The Proper Post-Election Agenda: Cut Spending, Then Taxes

  • Although popularly sold as a means of reducing overall health-care costs, the creators of the ACA knew that the inclusion of such provisions as the mandatory coverage of pre-existing conditions and the setting of premiums based on average costs rather than actuarial costs would necessarily increase the total cost of such coverage.

    FORBES: With or without mandate, Affordable Care Act fails

  • So getting rid of mandatory retirement would also put welcome pressure on companies to revise pay scales better to reflect ability rather than length of service.

    ECONOMIST: Greying Japan

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