The Letter Carriers alone retain the system of optional insurance.
Owing to opposition from members carrying old-line insurance and from the uncertainty in the number of assessments levied each year, the St. Louis convention of 1896 reverted to a system of optional insurance.
It is optional with the subordinate lodge as to whether or not it shall keep the member in good standing for more than one quarter.
The singer will be wise, however, to avail himself of the power of producing an optional tone with the mechanism of the lower register only on rare occasions.
In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
Still less is there a path or several optional paths definitely laid out ahead of us in the future.
Why is it necessary to storm the battlements of heaven and create a new earth in order to make Greek optional and get the students to take baths and walks?
At Antioch there was a large range of optional subjects, and among them was Greek, which the Western young men were about as much disposed to omit as the young women.
There should be more latitude allowed, more optional studies in all our schools.
The curriculums of the Western high schools have also a wideoptional margin.
I can think of nothing else that would conduce so much to the thorough and satisfactory study of music as to give it an optional place in our school curriculums.
It is optional with those who attend, to leave cards.
In meeting a lady it is optional with her whether she shall pause to speak.
When callers are ushered into the reception-room, they are met by the ladies, when introductions are given, and the callers are invited to remove their overcoats, but it is optional with them whether they do so or not.
It is optional with the lady whether the acquaintance shall be prolonged or not after this call.
It is entirely optional with the person to whom the latter is introduced how he welcomes him, or whether he entertains him or not, though his courtesy would be apt to suggest that some kind attentions should be paid him.
It is entirely optional with Senators, Representatives and all other officials except the President and members of his cabinet, whether they entertain.
It may be here stated that it is entirely optional with parties invited as to whether any presents are sent or taken.
I have already referred to the food taboo on persons undergoing the nose-piercing operation, and the optional food taboo to which the nearest relative of a deceased person may submit, in lieu of wearing the mourning string.
Everywhere, except in Maryland and West Virginia, where a religious ceremony is essential to a valid union, the optional civil or religions ceremony, at the pleasure of the persons contracting, is sanctioned by the law.
It is, however, highly probable that the optional system of celebration is too firmly grounded in popular sentiment to be soon discarded.
In the case of "intolerable severity" it is left optional with the court whether the decree shall be from bed and board or from the marriage bond.
Your prize is not quite asoptional as was Jerry's," said Mr. Wakefield, when Ned came forward in answer to his name.
The first was to be optional with the winner and of the value of two thousand dollars, the second one thousand dollars and the third five hundred dollars.
The optional functions are in fact very numerous, and there is hardly any end to the things which one government or another has provided for the people.
It is optional whether the hostess follows with the gentleman of highest rank present, unless a foreign prince is present, when she should follow the host, and in the case of a royal prince being present she should precede the host.
When the order for general mourning is given on the death of any member of the Royal Family, the order applies to all, although it is optional whether the general public comply with it or not.
It is optional whether a lady removes her gloves or not, and many prefer not to do so.
The guests are expected to arrive from half an hour to an hour of the time mentioned on the invitation card, although it is optional when they do so.
At receptions it is optionalwith both ladies and gentlemen whether they take off their gloves or not.
When the host is present he should accompany the lady downstairs into the hall; this also is an optional civility, and greatly depends upon the estimation in which the lady is held by host and hostess.
It is optional on the part of the host whether he returns or not with the gentlemen to the drawing-room, although, if not particularly engaged, it is more courteous to do so.
The bride's father should sign it, but it is optional whether the bride's mother does so or not.
Mourning given to servants on the death of a son or daughter is quite an optional matter.
The newer fashion in widows' mourning is to wear crape as a trimming only, and to discontinue its wear after six or eight months, while some few widows do not wear it at all during their mourning, it being optional wear.
Gentlemen should take off their gloves at wedding luncheons, but it is optional whether ladies do so or not.
It is thus optional to carry a bouquet or not, and some elderly ladies carry much smaller bouquets than do younger ladies.
It is optional whether a host conducts a lady to her carriage or not.
And it is optional with the Grand Lodge to do so, or, as is frequently done, to reverse the decision and reinstate the Brother.
Hence we erase all optional marks in the 1st and 3rd rows, but let them stand in the 2nd.
It was left optional with a litigant from the provinces to appeal to the local Sanhedrin or to one of the Minor Sanhedrins in Jerusalem.
The rule of separation is, however, generally optional with the litigant and discretionary with the court; the ruling of the court being usually reversed only in case of abuse of discretion.
Previous authorization necessary and optional suppression of them.
He seconded Lord Gorell's proposal that the Committee should admit that its scheme of an optionalcensorship was an elaborate absurdity, and report that all censorship before production was out of the question.
An optional conversion of sundry internal loans into consolidated stock at a lower rate of interest was calculated to effect considerable saving.
Little, however, was done either by the Metropolitan Board of Works, the Board of Trade, or the companies to avail themselves of the optional provisions of the Act.
Incendiarism; vindictive destruction Reparation of damage (with optional of property (without personal imprisonment).
