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Protecting our air, water and land is non-optional public policy.

Steven Cohen: Can Andrew Cuomo Meet the Leadership Challenge of Hydrofracking Policy? Steven Cohen 2011

JMO, we have a non-optional version that is incredibly popular.

Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010

For me, a highlight in the formal program came when Bill Clinton described the MDGs as a non-optional part of the long-term US economic strategy.

John W. McArthur: 2011 World Economic Forum: What Happens in Davos John W. McArthur 2011

If you live in that community, you have a massive, non-optional deduction from your paycheck to support your own vehicle-miles traveled.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

I grew up in the country, where the kinds of survival skills Cee talks about were non-optional -- if only because our little burg of 5,000 souls had the only stoplight for 170 miles in any direction.

The Real Deal: What Can You Count On? 2008

(She's in for a nasty surprise as soon as I finish this entry, since PT, workouts, and showers are all in the non-optional category in this house.)

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

We should take Quist at his word: even while Americans are reminded of the non-optional war we are in against radical Islamic terrorism, he genuinely believes that Democrats in general and the president of the United States in particular represent a more clear and present danger to our freedom than terrorists.

Avlon: Partisan politics ought to end at the water’s edge 2010

I grew up in the country, where the kinds of survival skills Cee talks about were non-optional -- if only because our little burg of 5,000 souls had the only stoplight for 170 miles in any direction.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Of course, for many people, wearing shoes is non-optional (so you get a gold star for keeping this resolution every day!)

Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- Put on Your Shoes 2009

If the contribution is non-optional, then "that's just the way things are."

What Took You So Long?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009