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The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction by the president forced us to seek a minimum wage increase.

We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominique Powell. In the second half, we was able to do a better job with the ball, reversing it and passing it better for more open looks and that loosened up their defense and forced them to work a little harder.

We've been at this for four years. In the third quarter they forced us into playing their style. Coach called a timeout to calm us down. We started going to the paint and getting some easy buckets.

We've been a little bit of a victim of (Lawyer Ron) being as spectacular as he's been and us almost being forced to play his game. We've chased a little bit, and I think that has maybe worked against us.

The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.

The government and people of Iraq can with their voices seek a timetable for the exit of the occupiers, ... Certainly, in the end the Americans and British will be forced by bitter experience to leave Iraq.

The defense was scrambling. I probably forced it. I just tried to make a play. It was a bad decision. Anything would have been better in that situation.

The defense kept giving us the ball back. When we were forced to move the ball and get some points, we did that.

The defense is what we fed off of. We forced some turnovers and got some easy baskets on offense and gained some momentum off it.

We were forced to make our live show the tool that would win people over.

We were forced to make many changes. We didn't defend the ball as well as we should have.

We were forced to go forward with submissions that we feel we can defend in a hearing. It's not a personal thing. We just have a business disagreement.

We were forced to do these things in the past because we live under occupation. We will still live under occupation even if we are in the government.

We were forced into this situation. Unfortunately our friends did not stand by us, ... The action they are taking now should have been taken long ago by all concerned parties.

While waiting here for his son to be returned to him, he has been forced to watch Elian exploited by those who have him in their care. On the morning shows on national television, in the streets of Miami and now most recently in a videotape taken of Elian in his own bedroom,

We've had about nine days off and we have a virus going around on the team, so some of our starters are a little sick. We were forced to move them in and out. We were a little sloppy, but when we had to turn it up, we did.

Tonight, Kobe hit the big shot in the corner which he does all the time. And Kwame Brown got too many second-chance points and tip-ins because we were forced to help on guys. I think we played hard but not good enough.

Theoretically, Lexmark could maintain prices and cede share. But they're unlikely to do that. If they cede share their installed base won't grow, so the all-important cartridge revenue won't grow. If HP does price aggressively, Lexmark will be forced to meet their pricing.

Theoretically, Lexmark could maintain prices and cede share, ... But they're unlikely to do that. If they cede share their installed base won't grow, so the all-important cartridge revenue won't grow. If HP does price aggressively, Lexmark will be forced to meet their pricing.

The opportunities we had to see him play big minutes -- when Brad Miller went down, he was forced into the starting lineup with Sacramento -- he played well in that role. He knows and we know that's not a role he's necessarily comfortable in. But he's shown the ability to shoot the ball well. We weren't really sure what kind of a defender he was going to be. We've been pleasantly surprised with the way he's come in and picked up our concepts and things we're trying to execute.

There can be no press freedom in the Philippines while journalists are forced to live in fear.

We will be forced to issue notices of termination, ... The Group's earnings capacity is insufficient and we must now take actions to ensure Volvo's long-term competitiveness.

We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.

To assume we're going to have our head over a barrel and be forced to accept some sort of compromise bill is not the position we find ourselves in right now. The moratorium remains in effect. There is nothing new; the only thing new is this tendency to provide an alternate plan to one that wants to drill closer to Florida's shores.

This team has a lot of heart and they're not going to quit. That's happened the last two games. We've been playing our best when we're behind and we're forced to. We need to have the discipline to start playing our best from the first minute.

This was a very good defensive effort, one of our best of the season. A big key for us was playing pressure defense that forced turnovers that we could convert into easy baskets.

This was a triumph for him here briefly, and he thought he was on a roll, ... Then he discovered as he moved south into New York that things were not going to go so easily for him. He was outmanned and outmaneuvered at the two battles of Saratoga and he was forced to surrender.

This was a big one for us. Defensively we put all kinds of pressure on them and forced them into a lot of bad shots.

We got after them with full-court pressure and forced a lot of turnovers early.

Turnovers were a factor, but at that point, we were down and we were doing some things we don't normally like to do. We were running some passing plays that we're not real comfortable running, but in that situation we were almost forced to do it.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Within one month, I was forced to wear a wig to conceal the bald area. I looked like a cancer patient losing hair from chemo. The huge difference is that I was not sick at all. I didn't have cancer.

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

You have to think that at some point the cable operators are going to be forced to do something. But then again I said the same thing last year when the phone companies cut DSL pricing. It's hard to know where the breaking point is and how long it will take to get there.

Water diversion is only a short-term measure to curb salt tides, as it will be forced to stop if there is not sufficient water in the river's upper reaches.

When you lose someone like Mark (Lyons), who is a starter, of course it is going to have an effect. But that isn't why we lost. Albany played great, played tremendous defense, and forced us into turnovers.

When I was six years old I was forced by my mother to learn piano, which I hated. However, it loosened up both my left and right hands.

What happens if the nurse-patient ratio can't be met? Would the state rather see entire units shut down and patients forced to transfer to different facilities?

What a roller-coaster ride. We seemingly had the game under control, but almost gave it away. But I have to give the team credit. They never quit. In the past two games, we were forced to sit out some key players due to injury, illness and card problems. I am very proud of the way the team bounced back from all that adversity.

What they did was very wrong, ... Their illegal actions affected billions of dollars of sales in the U.S. alone and forced higher prices worldwide.

What they are doing in their personal life is not a violation of the code of conduct. (But) I was forced to report both of them to the office of professional practices.

We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.

We slowed the game down, got some stops and forced them to take long shots. We got some easy shots and just closed it out.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return. ...The terms of this recovery proposal will help protect United Airlines, our members and their families.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return,

Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him to his left all night and got him frustrated. Not many teams have been able to shut him down. He is really a special player.

We talked about it at halftime and it's not that the game slipped away from us and we got behind 28-7, it was almost as if we forced ourselves to be behind 28-7.

We just forced their defense. We were just all over them. It's nice to see plenty of goals. Guys are feeling good right now.

We moved from a full-court press to a half-court press after the half. They were just too fast for us. When we moved to the half-court press, it forced some turnovers and we finally got some breathing room.

We will not shy away from a labor dispute if it were to be forced on us.

We will not allow the court to appoint other lawyers. The lawyers are forced to attend the hearings, despite serious threats on their lives, but they want to do that to serve justice.

We turned the ball over too many times. You've got to take care of the ball and we didn't. They forced some and we gave them some.

We got stops, we forced them into some contested jump shots and we were able to rebound the ball. We just did what we do best, and that's try to get up and down the floor. That's how we play basketball.

We got some shots, they missed some shots, and we converted. We forced some turnovers and they weren't able to run as much. That was good for us.

We got out and pressured their guards and forced a lot of turnovers, which led to easy baskets. It was a good effort to hold them to 12 points.

We don't want a strike, and we'll do everything possible to avoid one. But the drivers authorized a strike by a 96 percent margin, indicating how serious they are about their key issues, and we're ready to strike if we are forced to.

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

You got to a point when you're forced to pass, the defense gets to tee off. They know what's coming, and it's not a secret.

You get it to 44-all, I think we got a little too excited. You're not going to score in transition against Syracuse at their place. I thought we forced the issue. Even when we got it down there, we took some bad shots.

You get forced to take chances when you're down six, eight with four minutes to go.

To be forced to stake our economic future on accounting maneuvers and inflated growth estimates is a stunning reversal from the economic situation you inherited just seven short months ago,

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Washington picked up their defensive intensity in the fourth quarter. They forced us into some turnovers and we missed a few free throws and that helped them get back into the game.

We are suffering casualties daily. The repeated murderous attacks and violations of the cease-fire by the Palestinian Authority has forced us to start to reassess the situation.

We did a good job. We forced them to make some errors here and there. The girls hit the ball good." ()

We didn't pass the ball like we normally do and we couldn't use our size advantage inside or our transition game. Niles forced some turnovers and scored off them and we just didn't do that.

We didn't oppose the motion to void the stock options because they were worthless once management forced the company into bankruptcy anyway.

We didn't hit open shots, we forced things, we had defensive breakdowns. We made some very bad choices at the most crucial times. Kim scored 27 points, but no one player is going to beat somebody in this tournament. We needed everyone tonight, and our kids didn't do the job.

We had really, for the last four days of practice leading up to the game, stressed getting out on (Highland) and setting the tone defensively. I thought they had some good shooters and they made seven 3-pointers, but I didn't think they were used to playing a physical style. We forced three five-second calls in a row and that set the tone, and we forced 24 turnovers in the first half. Our transition worked really well and we got a lot of easy baskets.

We had put them away and (Harris) did some damage with his offensive rebounding. We were trapping them and they were beating the traps. (But) we played good defense and forced a lot of turnovers that produced some easy baskets.

We went through segments of the game, that I thought we struggled a little bit with carelessness. I think some of our turnovers were because we forced players late in the shot clock to try and go make a play.

Both against Albany and tonight, although in different ways, these teams forced Marcus Williams to make plays to beat them. And Marcus took advantage of the opportunity both times. He was magnificent.

Both of our main hospital buildings at Charity and University Hospitals are uninhabitable for health-care purposes. We don't believe it will ever be inhabitable again. We are forced to leave those buildings and start with a new footprint.

Bethel came out strong and executed a very patient offense. We forced too much on the offensive end of the court and had trouble with their balanced scoring.

Between 1998 and 2003, more than 10,000 families were forced out by eminent domain. It's the most powerful tool cities have to rejuvenate neighborhoods, but they are taking it too far.

Everything was done according to the book. Ken Lay never sold one share of stock that wasn't a forced sale.

Everything just clicked. It was one of the best doubles matches we've played so far. Everything we planned, we were able to execute. We forced them to make the errors.

Even though the surge in inflation was one-off, it was pretty shocking and the jump in fuel prices is likely to have some knock-on effects. It's better to move now than to be forced to move more later.

Between then and now, the amount of material has grown in huge measure. This is a huge amount of documentation, none of which has been seriously researched before. What's really being talked about is the massive potential addition to what we know and what we are able to learn, not just the way individuals were treated, but about the concentration camp system, how forced and slave labor worked, about the experiences of people who survived.

Every buck that they are forced to spend elsewhere is that much less money (spent) on other issues. With technology it may not fall dollar-for-dollar, but you have to think that it's going to pinch a little bit.

Every dollar governors are forced to cut out of our budgets is a dollar that's not going into the economy. . . . Every job that must be cut is another statistic in already escalating unemployment figures. . . . Every person who loses the support and services on which they rely for their livelihood and security leaves us poorer as a people and as a nation.

As the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing.

As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year.

As they age over the years, they forced us to build schools all over the place. Then you had to build houses for them, and now we're going to have to build health care facilities for them. Everything they do is of such a scale that you have to pay attention to it.

At that point, we were forced to foul as we were most of the fourth quarter. We had to put them at the line and hope they missed and we would get the opportunity to score. We had our chances, but we couldn't hit our shots.

At the beginning, we forced some things. But it didn't take us long to find ourselves and get it rolling,

At the end of the day when all this money is paid for legal fees the company will be forced into bankruptcy and nobody will get anything from Eel River Sawmills because the shares will be worthless.

Did President Clinton lie when he discussed the intelligence that led him to support the forced ouster of Saddam Hussein?

Dixon was the catalyst and really pushed the ball on the offensive end. And we get after it in practice on the defensive end and that showed. We forced a lot of turnovers.

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.

Credit their defense. They were playing pressure defense and forced us to take some hurried shots early.

Andy's more laid-back. You mess up, you know you're accountable. Huggs did the same thing, but Huggs forced you, which made a lot of players stronger. So we're all dealing with change here and hope to make the best of the situation.

Employees who are old enough to retire don't necessarily want to. (Federal age discrimination law) prohibits disparate treatment based on age and forbids forced retirement.

Eliot believes the way you earn the public and the party's support is by working hard, playing by the rules and speaking about the real issues that matter to the people of this state. Eliot learned this first hand. At the 1994 convention he was forced to go the petition route and after years of hard work in 1998 he was able to earn the support of the delegates. It wasn't easy but it was an important part of the process.

Due to the enormous backlog at the crime lab, it created a halt in the investigation -- if you will. They were forced to investigate other ... circumstances of the crime. We're very confident now that we have the ingredients necessary to move forward at a reasonable pace.

Due to circumstances with design and cost, we have been forced to look at an alternative scheme. Certainly in the next few months we'll have our arms around the direction in which we want to go.

During the recent downturn, the legacy carriers have gradually used up their financial cushion of aircraft and other assets they can borrow against. If they are forced to face a new crisis, they may fail more quickly than they have in the past.

Five kids were forced to play higher. We ran a pretty young lineup out there.

First there were doubts about the security of the stadiums and at present we are dealing with human trafficking, forced prostitution and right-wing extremism.