Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parents often choose a residence with the quality and accessibility of schools in mind. Would it not violate their personal freedom to compel them to send their children to schools distant from their homes? If it can work its will in this way, what is to prevent a government controlled by a racial minority from requiring that neighborhood housing and neighborhood schools both be regulated so as to maintain a fixed racial balance? Why not a religious or class or status balance? Why should suburban children not be bussed by state governments to schools in the central cities and slum...
Board member J. Carrell Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry, said that the Board had also waited for Gerould's opinion about the suit now in court to compel the anti-fluoridation forces to disclose the sources of the funds they used in their campaign...
This is the worst aspect of Spears' book: it does not compel you to refer to Auden's exciting verse itself. And even if Spears' reticence about the poet's life was conceived with a sense of decorum, the questions it leaves un-answered are much...
...neighboring villages. By noon they had surrounded Ayios Sozomenos and begun a battle that raged for five hours. At last, British troops, assigned the nearly impossible task of keeping the peace between the island's 500,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, arrived in sufficient force to compel a ceasefire...
...mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn...