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compelling and rationale
They cite the expansion of the Israeli Settler movement, especially in the West Bank, as a compelling rationale for bi-nationalism and the increased unfeasibility of the two-state alternative.
Though concurring in the decision, Justice O ' Connor dissented strongly from the rationale, arguing that a compelling state interest test should have been applied.

compelling and for
When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
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.
All of them felt a compelling need for more coverage on areas that could be only lightly touched upon in a general survey functional course.
But over and beyond the compelling need for a binding precedent decision, I am convinced that the decisions of the Superior Courts which in effect nullify the Secretary's Regulation are not a correct interpretation of the Secretary's power under the Federal law.
Similarities which have no adaptive relevance cannot be explained by convergent evolution, and therefore they provide compelling support for the theory of universal common descent.
Since 1999 the results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the empirical case for cosmic inflation very compelling.
Retrials for serious offences, where there is " fresh and compelling " evidence, or if the acquittal was tainted were proposed.
In Queensland on 18 October 2007, the double jeopardy laws were modified to allow a retrial where fresh and compelling evidence becomes available after an acquittal for murder or a ' tainted acquittal ' for a crime carrying a 25-year or more sentence.
In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.
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.
Individuals could also interact with the gods for their own purposes, appealing for their help through prayer or compelling them to act through magic.
Parapsychologists generally regard such tests as the ganzfeld experiment as providing compelling evidence for the existence of ESP.
The main current debate concerning ESP surrounds whether or not statistically compelling laboratory evidence for it has already been accumulated.
" Reviewing the book for Astounding Science Fiction, P. Schuyler Miller characterized the title piece as " one of Bradbury's bitter, almost hysterical diatribes ," although he praised its " emotional drive and compelling, nagging detail.
Individualism, sometimes closely associated with certain variants of anarchism or liberalism, typically takes it for granted that individuals know best and that public authority or society has no right to interfere in the person's decision-making process, unless a very compelling need to do so arises ( and maybe not even in those circumstances ).
Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C. R.
Organizations can have compelling reasons for keeping a legacy system, such as:
There has been a lively scientific debate as to whether other major extinctions, including the ones at the end of the Permian and Triassic periods might also have been the result of large impact events, but the evidence is much less compelling than for the end Cretaceous extinction.
For mainstream critics, the most compelling evidence against Oxford ( besides the historical evidence for William Shakespeare ) is his death in 1604, since the generally-accepted chronology of Shakespeare's plays places the composition of approximately twelve of the plays after that date.
The legal principle clausula rebus sic stantibus, part of customary international law, also allows for treaty obligations to be unfulfilled due to a compelling change in circumstances.
One compelling example of the need for QoS on the Internet relates to congestion collapse.

compelling and was
Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.
Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.
However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.
These three categories provide the most compelling evidence that the scribe was generally attentive to his work while he was copying, and that he later subjected his work to careful proofreading.
The proposed amendments would allow retrial if " new and compelling " evidence was found.
In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".
In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.
The video game King of Dragon Pass was released by A Sharp, allowing the player to play an Orlanthi hero who seeks to unite the clans and tribes of Dragon Pass in a kingdom ; the game features exceptional depth of coverage of the area of Dragon Pass, and featured the first compelling public view of Stafford's ideas about the hero quest.
A value of US $ 195 million to the Honduran economy from assembly industries in 1991 — when the value of clothing exports was greater than that of coffee — was a compelling argument in favor of the shift, however.
" 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.
However, the move was not approved by other National League owners, thus compelling the Astros to remain in Houston.
His performance was called " brilliant ", " compelling ", and " superb.
In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan, which some experts considered very compelling.
Modern readers are cautioned to understand that Scott's aim was to create a compelling novel set in a historical period, not to provide a book of history.
"' Forever Changes ' is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969 ... ' Forever Changes ' is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.

compelling and role
On 23 February 2005, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) conservative majority at the French National Assembly voted a law compelling history textbooks and teachers to " acknowledge and recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa ".
Writing for the British Film Institute, Sergio Angelini judged that " Le Mesurier is utterly compelling throughout in an atypical role ".
Lonely Planet described the film as " perhaps the most compelling film about the role of women in rural India, a moving tale about love, loss and the maternal bond ".
It also provides some of the most compelling evidence that the extended phenotype of a species can play a role in sexual selection and indeed act as a powerful mechanism to shape its evolution, as seems to be the case for humans.
Unlike Francis Ford Coppola, who revealed a surprising enthusiasm for horrific vampire tricks in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mr. Nichols shows no great gusto for the supernatural ... there are admirable performances from Mr. Spader, still turning the business of being despicable into a fine art, and Kate Nelligan, as Will's deceptively brisk and efficient wife ... Ms. Pfeiffer's role is underwritten, but her performance is expert enough to make even diffidence compelling.
He was perfect for the role, and it was his mixture of childlike wonder and bitter, deserved vengeance that made the character so compelling.
He provided a compelling characterization of the embattled President Andrew Johnson in Tennessee Johnson ( 1942 ), playing opposite ( and at odds with ) Lionel Barrymore who, in the role of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, failed to have Johnson convicted in an impeachment trial by the slimmest of margins.
This novel contains some of Vance's most compelling and unforgettable characters, such as the mad poet, Navarth, who has a central role.
He realized how minor his role had been and wanted to put Howells's name on the title page, but a legal agreement with Harper and Brothers that his name would only appear on their publications prevented this, and Harper and Brothers wanted $ 2, 500 ( approximately $ 50, 000 with inflation ) for a release, compelling Howells to sign the Introduction as " The Associate Editors.
Music critic and author Matt Dobkin wrote that, while Ariadne auf Naxos is " not as well loved as Der Rosenkavalier or as important as Salome, it is nevertheless staged all the time, thanks in large part to sopranos ' attraction to the vocal and dramatic grandeur of the title role and to the compelling spitfire Zerbinetta character.
" I now feel the compelling need for sustained time to reflect and write about America ’ s role in the world in this difficult and dangerous period .” In September 2010, Blackwill rejoined the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow.
Recent work by Courtney and Courtney provides compelling support for the role of a ballistic pressure wave in creating remote neural effects leading to incapacitation and injury.
Hill guested in the original Robert Stack series The Untouchables episode: ' Jack ' Legs ' Diamond ' as the title gangster character giving a compelling cold evil performance, and a similar sinister role as a confined to bed ( following an accident ) ruthless manipulative millionaire in ' The White Knight ' a 1966 black & white third season episode of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen.
Conte is stiff and wooden-but no more so than his formal man-of-science role requires, while Ferrer is a compelling cartoon villain.
After graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1967, he quickly established himself as one of the most compelling theatre actors in Canada, performing with Toronto Arts Productions, the National Arts Centre ( where he played Hamlet, touring the role nationally ), the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Tarragon Theatre and the Toronto Free Theatre, as well as at the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival.

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