Word: compelled
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Still, right or wrong, the Israelis are convinced that Assad has a scheme in his head: to use special forces to grab and hold a small piece of the Golan Heights, creating a crisis that would compel the U.S. to intervene and restart negotiations, presumably resulting in Syria's recovery of the Golan. Because Assad understands well that his forces are inferior to Israel's, no one thinks he would provoke a full-scale war. But that might still be the result, were Israel to respond to a limited land grab, as it has threatened, with a disproportionately severe counterattack...
...someone has been given the power to empathize...it should compel them to choose medicine or another healing profession," she says. "[The seer] made [medicine] more of an obligation [for me]. Nothing else would be as fulfilling or as beneficial to society...
...irrelevant to the discussion of a search for a cure. But it was precisely because it was not irrelevant in the minds of legislators, that it has taken so long for the government to respond to the epidemic proportions of this disease. Groups like ACT-UP were formed to compel our elected officials, through radical activism, to take action on AIDS...
...smokers and homosexuals he displays his moral contempt rather than his intelligence. This comparison has no place within a reasoned debate. To imply that gays and lesbians actively choose to be criticized and discriminated against is folly. But whether or not they choose thier sexual orientation, that should not compel any state to condemn an act of loving between two consenting adults...
There are two ways an immigrant can assimilate into American life. One approach is to embrace mainstream culture, the sitcoms, the Coca-Cola, the straight-ahead pop music and, of course, the English language. The other way is to assert your own identity, your own heritage, and compel the rest of America to taste your spices, to dance to your Afro-Cuban grooves. Estefan has done both. From the mid-1980s on, her work with the Miami Sound Machine consisted mostly of processed American-style dance music seasoned with punchy Latin rhythms. "She was the first to take Latin-influenced...