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Forced by nature to work together, over the centuries they built and maintained a network of polders and dikes that kept out the sea and the floods, in the process transforming their desolate landscape, mastering the North Sea and the high seas beyond, and emerging out of the struggle as one of the most urban and enterprising nations in Europe.
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* 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
Forced by his son's respiratory illness to winter in the South, Stone moved to Arkansas and Texas.
Forced at an early age by royal duty he had to marry Constanza, the Infanta ( Princess ) of Castile.
Forced air induction by turbocharging and supercharging have increased power outputs and engine efficiencies.
Forced to sign a peace treaty with the Poles after the Battle of Chotin ( Chocim ) ( which was, in fact, a siege of Chotin defended by the Polish hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ) in September – October, 1621, Osman II returned home to Istanbul in shame, blaming the cowardice of the Janissaries and the insufficiency of his statesmen for his humiliation.
* Biologist Tracks Walruses Forced Ashore As Ice Melts – audio report by NPR
* Forced population transfers in early Ottoman imperial strategy, a comparative thesis that treats the subject in some detail, and includes a general evaluation of the use of population transfers by states in the pre-modern period
Forced by a hostile crowd to flee Mozambique, da Gama departed the harbor, firing his cannons into the city in retaliation.
Forced to take major responsibility, in 1959, Mao resigned as the State Chairman, China's head of state, and was succeeded by Liu Shaoqi.
Forced convection may happen by natural means, such as when the heat of a fire causes expansion of air and bulk air flow by this means.
* Forced migration, by persecution or violence
Forced to abandon their position at Fukuo, Chinese troops were pursued relentlessly by the enemy.
Sociologist David Armor in court testimony and in his book Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law ( 1995 ) said that efforts to change the racial compositions of schools had not contributed substantially to academic achievement by minorities.
Forced to stay at home, Dalen discovered that his wife was exhausted by cooking.
Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car.
At least part of the vehement criticism was due to the confusion in the public's mind between Taylor's book and another book published in 1961, Der Erzwungene Krieg ( The Forced War ) by the American historian David Hoggan.
Forced to earn a living by writing, he developed an astounding literary activity.
Forced to substitute a lower delta V capable solid rocket upperstage, the IUS, instead of ascending directly to Jupiter, Galileo flew by Venus once and Earth twice in order to reach Jupiter in December, 1995.
Forced into a funnel by the bad ground and Fontanone stream, Hadik ’ s attack came under fire from two sides and failed, with Hadik being killed.
Forced to move early because of intelligence that the Dominion was on the verge of taking down the minefield, the Federation departed before a full force could be assembled and found themselves blocked and outnumbered by a Dominion-Cardassian fleet.
* Forced Exposure magazine, Issue 14, Autumn 1988-article by Nigel Cross and Byron Coley and interviews with Peter Kember 1987 / 88.
Forced to crash-land and stranded in the desert, they attempt to return to civilization while being pursued by a pair of " black helicopters " ( figuratively speaking ; actually painted olive drab in the film ).
" Forced prostitution " generally refers to conditions of control over a person who is coerced by another to engage in sexual activity.
Forced and work
Forced to work together to survive on a hostile planet, they fall in love and eventually get married.
Forced labor occurs when an individual is forced to work against his or her will, under threat of violence or other punishment, with restrictions on their freedom.
Forced work is used to prevent squatting and other kinds of abuse.
Forced to turn down work as Charlie Parker's drummer, during that time he worked out the basic tenets of what was to become his Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, a theory encompassing all of equal-tempered music which has been influential well beyond the boundaries of jazz.
Forced to return to England on his father's death in 1908, he held positions at various hospitals in London until he moved to Oxford in 1914 to work with Sir William Osler ( first Baronet ), then Regius Professor of Medicine at the university.
Forced to work together to survive, they come to realize it is no ordinary island.
Forced by circumstances to work for her living since she was young, Lehzen was employed by the von Marenholtzs, an aristocratic German family, where she earned glowing references.
Forced laborers were often assigned work in dangerous conditions without adequate safety precautions.
Forced labor, one is told, depleted manpower in many places, especially in areas where the male population were made to cut timber in forests, or were made to work in shipyards, far from their own homes, and, thus, causing untold misery to their families.
Forced to leave town because of their experiments, Frankenstein and Hans return to the Baron's hometown of Karlstaad to try and sell valuables in the abandoned Frankenstein chateau, in order to fund new work.
" Forced however to work alongside his nemesis, on projects such as famine relief, the Doctor seeks to uncover Davros before he can put new schemes to create a powerbase into effect.
Forced to go on the run from the police and creep run through the Parisian community on a rainy night, she finds Cavier, who, though suspicious of her, gives her Von Croy ’ s journal, containing very useful information about Von Croy's work and research about the Obscura Paintings.
Forced by that, Gravgaard announced in January 2011, that he would now end his active playing career for good, and that he would continue – at least for the next half year – to work as a football commentator, pundit and analyst, at the Danish TV channel Canal 9.
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Forced into the leadership position, Jacen uses the Force Meld to bind the team together into a cohesive fighting unit.
* The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration brings together academics, practitioners and decision-makers working on forced migration issues.
Arbeitsbuch Für Ausländer ( Workbook for Foreigner ) identity document issued to a Polish Forced Labourer in 1942 by the Germans together with a letter " P " patch that Poles were required to wear to identify them from the German population.
Forced to do a biology project together Pacey and Joey spend the whole day together.
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Forced to kneel over two freshly dug holes, the brothers were shot into their graves and buried.
Forced out of their medieval homeland ( south of the River Don in present-day Russia ) during Mongol rule, Alans migrated towards and over the Caucasus mountains, where they subsequently would form three ethnographical groups ; the Iron, Digoron, and Kudar.
Forced Perfect Termination can be used on single ended buses where diodes remove over and undershoot conditions.
The Programme team collects relevant information ( in cooperation with partners ) over central issues, the worst types of Child labour, Debt bondage, Forced labour, Forced marriage, human trafficking and traditional slavery.
Forced to find a new logo literally at the last minute, the equipment man simply stuck the Chicago Bears ' " C " logo over the old New York logo.
Forced to undergo surgery, Prudente de Morais retired from power between 10 November 1896 and 4 March 1897, turning over his responsibilities to Vice-President Vitorino.
Forced to return to Europe, over a quarter of its passengers subsequently died in the Holocaust.
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