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But rising risk – reflected in the recent plunge in China’s stock market – has compelled the government to step in to limit the fallout.
Having acted boldly since the summer of 2012 to preserve the eurozone’s integrity, it has felt compelled not to antagonize policy hawks and to err on the side of caution in formulating its monetary strategy.
In the interest of their own security, the European Union and its member states will be compelled to pay much closer attention to southeastern Europe than they have until now.
Savers, on the other hand, may be compelled to save more in the face of shrinking interest income.
Though they may be compelled to take into account political limitations – like in Belgium, Italy, or Spain – they rarely face legal limitations.
But their DNA testing turned out to be so shoddy that the appeals court felt compelled to reject it as unreliable.
Indeed, rising demand for healthier foods, including antibiotic-free meat, has already compelled major food-industry players like McDonald’s, Costco, and KFC to declare their intention to phase out antibiotic-laden meat.
In fact, Kenyatta might feel compelled to maintain his political style even if he is acquitted, in order to prove to the world that the court made the right decision.
Under mounting public scrutiny, government officials felt compelled to promise that those responsible will be brought to justice.
Consider, for example, how Indonesia’s Suharto regime, from 1966 to 1998, depicted alleged Communist insurgent savagery, and compelled citizens to watch it on television and in theaters.
Indeed, this lobbying game is often a race to the bottom, and foreign companies are compelled to establish a local presence so that they can persuade politicians that they are just as beneficial to the domestic economy as their native competitors.
At its inception, people were compelled to work 17 hours a day without a day off or retirement.
Academic journals determine the various disciplinary rankings that academic institutions are compelled to climb, which leads institutions to hire and retain only those scholars who can produce at high rates.
And it was just this sort of coercive diplomacy, backed by sanctions and a united position among major international actors, that compelled Iran to sign its own deal.
And so much for intellectual honesty, because a Germany without nuclear power of its own will be compelled to buy it from France, which has no intention of closing its nuclear plants.
“The Responsibility to Protect” (colloquially known as “R2P”) held countries accountable for their people’s welfare and compelled the international community to intervene when governments failed to protect civilians from mass atrocities – or were themselves threatening civilians.
Indeed, Musharraf might be compelled to impose emergency rule again, as he did in November, should Pakistan’s stability further deteriorate.
This has compelled central bankers to remain in the policy forefront, building one bridge extension after another as they wait for other policymakers to get their act together.
If states feel compelled to act in the case of Council stalemate, they should know that they would do less damage to their reputations if they act within the Panel’s guidelines for legitimacy, even if they fail to satisfy its criterion for legality.
Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union compelled Japan in July 1941 to prepare a plan of attack.
This is why the United Nations, World Bank, Global Fund, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, African heads of state, and many other governments, organizations, and individuals have felt compelled to act.
GMOs (genetically modified organisms) face a similarly problematic stigma – one that compelled the American food-production behemoths General Mills and Post Foods to eliminate GMOs from their popular Cheerios and Grape Nuts cereals, respectively.
If the already-unstable situation there deteriorates after the end of US-led combat operations, India and Iran may be compelled to revive their strategic cooperation of the 1990’s.
But they are often overruled or compelled to acquiesce.
At times it is useful to be compelled to do what you may not have the will to do on your own.
It is not just ridiculous, but downright irresponsible, for example, that the British Labour Party intellectual Maurice Glasman now feels compelled to reveal the so-far hidden “angry insurgent side” of party leader Ed Miliband.
In doing so, these countries would also be responding to the increasingly transactional approach to sustaining openness that the larger traders are being compelled to adopt.
This throwback to the cottage industries that preceded modern production is possible today because the Internet is lowering the costs of dispersion that once compelled the concentration of work in factories and offices.
With oil prices tumbling, Putin may now feel compelled to make another desperate and destructive move, in the hope of convincing the world that he is still in control of the situation.
A presidency that, having dismantled traditional checks and balances, is never compelled to provide coherent reasons for its policies, is soon likely to have few coherent reasons for its policies.
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