So here's the obligatory, but important, cautionary note.
All that's going to do here is create an obligatory cuddle session, and when that happens, you've missed the point entirely.
You may keep your hair short, but you still get it cut, and colored, and blown out -- not to mention the obligatory mani-pedi -- with far greater frequency than the minivan gets an oil change.
Attendance at school is obligatory.
There’s also a vinyl record shop, Ear Candy, and the obligatory music and gag gift store, Rockin Rudy’s.
It has the characters including the validity of the function, the technicality of the subject, the obligatory character of the mode and the legal characters of the procedure.
Attendance at primary school is obligatory.
A properly arranged school curriculum, like a cookbook on nutritionally well-balanced food, must include all the useful and indispensable courses — courses which are equally important and obligatory.
It is smaller than I'd imagined, a huddle of neat, white-walled buildings arranged around a tall prayer-hall, which an unsmiling young woman, with the obligatory red robe and crew cut, leads me to.
In her remarks, Mrs. Pelosi delivered the obligatory promise of partnership with Republicans. But she immediately added a blunt warning to Mr. Bush on the war in Iraq.
The obligatory school system usually includes the primary education and secondary education I (lower secondary).
She feels that my apologies are obligatory and not heartfelt.
Stroll through the military museum and craft market to find the obligatory gifts for the folks back home.
The first is the obligatory IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) statement, with "Be sure to seek legal advice" advice tacked on, which ensures that no lawyer will sue me for bad advice.
Delighted Turkish officials see favourable omens: they say it will be the first time an American President has visited Turkey without also making an obligatory visit to its rival, Greece.
