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...neighboring villages. By noon they had surrounded Ayios Sozomenos and begun a battle that raged for five hours. At last, British troops, assigned the nearly impossible task of keeping the peace between the island's 500,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, arrived in sufficient force to compel a ceasefire...
...mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn...
...organization dedicated to the overthrow of U.S. democracy, the Communist Party of the U.S. has taken abundant advantage of the legal protection that democracy provides. Ever since 1950, when the Internal Security Act went into effect, the Government has been trying to compel the party to register as a "Communist action organization" and furnish lists of its members, income sources and expenditures. During all that time, invoking its rights under the U.S. Constitution, the Communist Party has successfully fended off wave after wave of Justice Department lawyers...
...state Supreme Court ruled that the law violated the state constitution, which forbids the legislature to set a "special" interest rate applicable only to specific kinds of transactions. Any seller who had charged more than 9% on an installment sale, said the court, forfeited the legal right to compel the purchaser to pay. The legislature hastily passed a substitute law, with altered rates and revised wording, but a few weeks ago the Supreme Court struck down that effort...
...sense with his phrasing: "It was I who gave you hungry mouths in all your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing," Phillips has the sensible "and they compel me to bring you to ruin, and make your inhabitants an object of scorn...