"President Obama has made it a clear commitment to revolutionize the way that we use energy, including mandatory cap and trade legislation, long-term submissions reductions goals and a commitment to renewable energy technologies,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Threatening people with knives will carry a mandatory term.

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But the appeals judges upheld the guilty verdicts on other charges, including one that carried a mandatory jail term.

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Smith faces a mandatory life term, but the judge will decide how long he must spend in jail before being eligible for parole.

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