What's the difference between mandatory and obligated?

Mandatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
  • (n.) Same as Mandatary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (2) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
  • (3) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
  • (4) Results of venous thrombectomies are particularly astonishingly good in phlegmasia coerulea and it is therefore mandatory to transfer all fresh cases of thrombosis of the deep veins of the peelvis and lower extremities to an angiologic center in order to differentiate cases for fibrinolytic therapy, from those which require surgical intervention.
  • (5) Additional criteria such as diagnosis by culture are, therefore, mandatory.
  • (6) Fast surgical intervention is mandatory to prevent myocardial infarction or to limit the extent of injury.
  • (7) The cooperation between physiatrist and gynecologist is mandatory.
  • (8) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
  • (9) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
  • (10) Both groups received ventilatory management involving intermittent mandatory ventilation.
  • (11) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (12) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
  • (13) A close post-operative follow-up is mandatory, since most of the failures were caused by loss of the Jones' tube.
  • (14) However, because the potential exists for recurrence of the cardiac tumor, for enlargement of the cerebral lesions, or for late development of cerebral lesions, long term follow-up is mandatory and a vigorous work-up must be pursued if the patient again becomes symptomatic or develops central nervous system manifestations for the first time.
  • (15) In October 2014 an Aboriginal woman died while being detained for mandatory alcohol treatment .
  • (16) Since the importation of toxin-producing diphtheria bacteria is unavoidable and may occur at all times, universal active immunisation in childhood, as well as timely revaccination of adolescents and adults, are mandatory prophylactic measures to prevent new epidemics.
  • (17) Relief of the increased intrapericardial pressure is mandatory to establish adequate cardiac output.
  • (18) To offer these individuals the optimum result, it is mandatory to have close liaison with an orthodontic colleague.
  • (19) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (20) However, aortography is mandatory for complete preoperative evaluation.

Obligated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Obligate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (5) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
  • (6) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
  • (7) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
  • (8) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
  • (9) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (12) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
  • (13) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
  • (14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
  • (15) These species are all obligately anaerobic, asaccharolytic, and generally nonreactive, and they grow poorly and slowly on media commonly used to isolate anaerobic bacteria.
  • (16) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
  • (17) In the present report we summarize our data on 144 obligate female carriers.
  • (18) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
  • (19) No serious side effects were reported and none of the patients was obliged to terminate treatment because of side effects.
  • (20) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.