Word: compelling
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...jerk. What does this mean in practice? Say you go to meet the deputy foreign minister. You may not be certain if he likes you, for either way taarof will demand that he greet you warmly, pour you tea, and suggest you meet again. It would not, however, compel him to obfuscate matters of political substance...
...Charter, meaning its participants can only use weapons in self-defense. "The problem for this force is it's going to be there with the consent of Hizballah, essentially," says Tim Williams of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. France's hesitancy could compel the U.N. to sharpen its approach, but there is scant room for maneuver. In the end, President Jacques Chirac may find it hard not to beef up France's U.N. contingent to uphold two of his long-cherished principles: multilateralism and an independent Lebanon...
...human cost has been far greater: 11 members of IraQna's workforce of 400 have been abducted by terrorists, and two remain missing. Sawiris once shut down IraQna for a couple of days to compel the release of some of his employees. Insurgents, he explains, don't like to be without service. And IraQna has turned out to be a relatively safe bet financially compared with Orascom's adventures in Syria and Yemen, where Orascom was muscled out of partnerships in both countries, says Sawiris, with the Arab regimes there affording no protection or legal recourse. That behavior...
...ultimate success or failure of Bush's effort at transforming American grand strategy will be judged by history. Top officials believe that no matter who wins the 2008 election, the logic of the situation will compel him (or her) to follow the broad lines of Bush's approach. As Vice President Dick Cheney has said, "Ten years from now, we'll look back on this period of time and see that liberating 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq really did represent a major, fundamental shift, obviously, in U.S. policy in terms of how we dealt with the emerging terrorist...
...launched. Second, the North should be penalized for defying the international community's unanimous appeal not to conduct its July 4 tests. China and South Korea are the main economic benefactors of North Korea, and President Bush is right to seek a United Nations Security Council action that would compel all nations to suspend trade with Pyongyang...