"mandatory" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- China has resisted mandatory reductions in emissions, arguing that it is still a developing country and needs to balance environmental improvements with maintaining economic growth.
- And the U.S. has refused to impose tough mandatory reductions on its own.
- Democrats said that they had proposed a significant mandatory reduction in imports during the energy policy debate only to see the plan rejected by Republicans.
- But the mandatory reduction, enacted in 1990, was accompanied with specific measures that cut costs.
- For instance, nearly five years behind some of its northern neighbors, Italy is now considering mandatory reductions in automobile emissions.
- It would require prompt and mandatory reductions by 2012 in gas emissions to levels well below those in 1990.
- Mr. Bush said a mandatory reduction could hurt what he called an already stressed energy market.
- Even the United States Senate has committed itself, on paper, to a program of mandatory reductions, with hearings to begin later this month.
- The answer is 'no', and this is why we have proposed the mandatory reduction by 2012.
- The treaty calls for the mandatory reduction of greenhouse gases by industrial nations.
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