Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

One is that there is no compelling reason, using current particle physics, to expect the universe to be flat, homogeneous and isotropic ( see the cosmological principle ).

The AT bus architecture was so well entrenched that no single clone manufacturer had the leverage to create a standardized alternative, and there was no compelling reason for them to cooperate on a new standard.

" Though Heraclitus " quite deliberately plays on the various meanings of logos ", there is no compelling reason to suppose that he used it in a special technical sense, significantly different from the way it was used in ordinary Greek of his time.

According to a respected author: " There is no compelling reason to believe that the classical thermodynamic entropy is a measurable property of nonequilibrium phenomena, ..."

Nevertheless, its cosmological predictions appear to be consistent with observations, so there is no compelling reason to adopt another theory.

On his part, according to noted biographer Russell, true love was missing, but the prospect of social acceptance, and standing, was the compelling reason for his proposal.

An important legal requirement for common carrier as public provider is that it cannot discriminate, that is refuse the service unless there is some compelling reason ( e. g. post doesn't allow to send cash ).

No compelling reason is provided for the caesura of persecution, though, unlike in the incident of the satanic verses, where it is the ( temporary ) fruit of Muhammad's accommodation to Meccan polytheism.

* It is impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, the believer feels as totally compelling and convincing.

Under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, the appeal must have " a real prospect of success ", or there must be " some other compelling reason why the appeal should be heard " for it to be accepted.

Section 55 ( 1 ) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 says that, when an appeal is made to a County Court or the High Court and that court makes a decision, no further appeal is allowed to the Court of Appeal unless the Court considers that the case raises " an important point of principle or practice " or " there is some other compelling reason for the Court of Appeal to hear it ".

In the context of mandamus from a United States Court of Appeals to a United States District Court, the Supreme Court has ruled that the appellate courts have discretion to issue mandamus to control an abuse of discretion by the lower court in unusual circumstances, where there is a compelling reason not to wait for an appeal from a final judgment.

For Stone, temperance was a stepping-stone — it offered a compelling reason to give women further rights.

Persons charged with a criminal offence in Canada have a constitutional right to reasonable bail unless there is some compelling reason to deny it.

Since these stamps had next to no value, forgers had no compelling reason to make copies.

the ( product name ) is a ( product category ) that ( statement of key benefit – that is, compelling reason to buy ).

In marketing, a whole product is a generic product ( or core product ) augmented by everything that is needed for the customer to have a compelling reason to buy.

In fact, the most compelling reason for this practice is that the party with the most seats can survive confidence votes so long as the smaller party ( or parties ) simply abstain from confidence votes, whereas a governing party without a plurality in the House needs at least one other party to vote with it at all times ( assuming the largest party will always vote no confidence, but that is almost certain to occur when they are denied the opportunity to govern ).

Also that same year, The Perth Group, a group of denialists based in Perth, Western Australia led by Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, published in the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses their first article questioning aspects of HIV / AIDS research, arguing that there was " no compelling reason for preferring the viral hypothesis of AIDS to one based on the activity of oxidising agents.

Students must live on campus unless there is parental consent and a compelling reason until the age of 23.

Toleration has been described as undermining itself via moral relativism: " either the claim self-referentially undermines itself or it provides us with no compelling reason to believe it.

" bsent a more particularized and compelling reason for its actions ," Harlan continued, " the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense.

" In practice, there is no compelling reason to make manhole covers non-circular.

Wells tells Lois that in truth the people of the future simply considered Lois to be blinded by love, and that this has made her story a compelling one throughout the intervening years.

This culminated on 5 October when half a million people from all over the country congregated in Belgrade, compelling Milošević to concede defeat.

He said in an interview about the book: " I wrote this book because of my conviction that the Bush Doctrine has a more compelling logic and historical pedigree than people realize.

because the first one is that of logic … and as I cannot object to the premise " that all people have the right to eat ", I must defer to all the conclusions …. The second of the two compelling voices, of which I am talking, is even more powerful than the first, because it is the voice of hatred, the hatred I dedicate to this common enemy that constitutes the most distinctive contrast to communism and that will oppose the angry giant already at the first instance – I am talking about the party of the so-called advocates of nationality in Germany, about those false patriots whose love for the fatherland only exists in the shape of imbecile distaste of foreign countries and neighbouring peoples and who daily pour their bile especially on France ".

On March 12, 2009, Gaffney appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and accused former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, " There is also circumstantial evidence, not proven by any means, but nonetheless some pretty compelling circumstantial evidence of Saddam Hussein's Iraq being involved with the people who perpetrated both the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and even the Oklahoma City bombing.

Hence, although people psychologically require the activities that lead to their self-actualisation as persons, it remains a consideration of secondary historical relevance, because the capitalist mode of production eventually will exploit and impoverish the proletariat until compelling them to social revolution for survival.

In 2005, based on discussions with the public, the committee changed its name from British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles to British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, as it was felt that out of all the arguments surrounding the Parthenon ( Elgin ) Marbles, that of reunifying two separated collections was perceived by many people as the most compelling.

NCCL worked to reduce the age of consent in the United Kingdom and argued that court cases and inquests compelling young people to recount sexual activities wilfully engaged in could do more damage than the acts themselves, arguing that “ childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage ”.

The world would be a breathtakingly beautiful place filled with waterfalls, mountains, dense forests, populated with compelling and convincing characters with real personality, people who actually reacted to what you did.

This is achieved in a number of ways including: having a program already underway and something compelling happening at a junction point, running a program late so that people ‘ hang around ’ and miss the start of other programs, or television advertising the next program during the credits of the previous.

Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining and create a ‘ sticky ’ community where people return frequently and remain for extended periods.

Like Even's group, the Union rejected the party system and ran not as a partisan political party but as a citizen's organization compelling their elected representatives to represent the will of the people.

This is what made SimCity and The Sims compelling to people.

These policies aimed to impose or to maintain the dominance of French language and culture by encouraging or compelling people of other ethnic groups to adopt them, and thereby developing a French identity.

The breadth of Marker's work — from routine matters such as gathering evidence for divorces ( at a time when British law required evidence of infidelity or other compelling reason for annulling a marriage ) or creditworthiness enquiries, to more exotic investigations such as tracing missing people ( or in one case, a prize-winning whippet )— meant that he had little idea what a person walking into his office at the start of an episode would be wanting of him.

While halting some days at Korla, Kin Shun ( Chin-shun ) heard that Bayen Hu was coercing the people east of Kucha at Tsedayar and other places, and compelling them to withdraw to Kucha and to destroy their crops.

Tag could " tag " other people, originally causing them to emit a psionic signal compelling others to run away from the tagged subject.

Their replacements, television shows, were false contexts designed to be just compelling enough to keep people watching.

When you can tap into the personal relationships and the love and the caring and also the hopes and fears of all these people we've invested so much time and support in, you have compelling storytelling.

* 1951 ( Po ): two thirds of Polesine was flooded, compelling 150, 000 people to evacuate the entire area.

From 9 to 10 a. m. every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, they reach from the Chesapeake Bay to the mountains for compelling conversations with people who make the news, and with people who cover it-including WYPR's own reporters.

This simple, yet compelling plot teaches that if people think and wonder why, things will begin to happen and dreams will come true.