What's the difference between mandatory and voluntary?

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.

Voluntary


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
  • (v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
  • (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
  • (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
  • (v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
  • (v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
  • (v. t.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
  • (n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.
  • (n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
  • (n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
  • (3) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
  • (4) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (5) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
  • (6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (7) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
  • (8) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
  • (9) Criteria for evaluating the data were scanning pattern (voluntary preferred reading direction) and reading performance.
  • (10) The atrophies of motor cortex seemed to be responsible for the disorder of voluntary movement.
  • (11) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
  • (12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (13) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (14) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
  • (15) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
  • (16) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
  • (17) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
  • (18) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
  • (19) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
  • (20) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.