Word: compellent
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...were not mere side effects of an otherwise innocuous protest—indeed, the very purpose of the sit-in was to leverage possession of Massachusetts Hall into influence over University policy. Differences with the administration over the living wage should be addressed through efforts to convince, not to compel. PSLM is now attempting to make the administration and University community suffer until its demands are met. We cannot condone the use of this sort of coercive engagement on this issue...
...these three traits, the last—nostalgia—is the most dangerous. It doesn’t hurt Harvard seniors to harbor a little nostalgia. But for the senior Crimson columnist, nostalgia can be deadly. It can compel writers to spend 800 words waxing poetic with nonsense about first-year friendships forged over Annenberg’s Fried Cusk. Or it can lead to a “Fifty Things to Do Before Graduation” piece, which invariably makes asinine suggestions like “Camp out at the Arnold Arboretum...
...these humiliating proofs of foreign military and jurisdictional superiority became a central preoccupation of Chinese nationalism. Much of 20th-century Chinese history is the story of China's attempts to regain control over its tariffs on foreign trade, to eradicate the treaty ports, and once more to compel the foreigners to be tried according to Chinese...
...remain skeptical about the E.U.'s progressive pooling of national sovereignty, as one might expect from an island nation whose defining moments, from Waterloo to the Battle of Britain, have come from fighting Continental hegemons. Unlike the British tabloids, Cummings never descends to blasting nonexistent Brussels directives that supposedly compel straight bananas and cucumbers. But he does use all the techniques of modern politics - systematic fertilization of grassroots support, instant response to news, slick website, skillful ads - to convince both the intelligentsia and voters that relinquishing a national currency, especially control of interest rates, will lose Britain more than...
...Russian thieves have been siphoning billions abroad in order to enjoy civilized life far from their plundered country. But what can they do with their foreign villas and bank accounts if they lose access? Might their nevyezdnoi status compel them to reinvest their ill-gotten gains in their own national economy? A major oligarch is said to be looking into the development of ski resorts in the Caucasus Mountains. Might the lure of potential profits force Russian tycoons to pacify Chechnya more effectively-and less barbarously-than the government has been trying to? Will they, indeed, find ways to make...