But in having the courage to dream big, they were compelled into powerful action, and became extra-ordinary as a result.

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Hey, even doctors are compelled into action.

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Britain's trade union body, the TUC, wants employers to be compelled to pay into their workers' pension funds.

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With my savings depleted, I feel compelled to dive back into a full-time job.

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"Faced with such horror, we are compelled to turn the despair in our hearts into unshakeable resolve that this will not happen to our children, " she said.

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Into this new and volatile mix we feel compelled to throw a couple of old facts: The House of Saud hews to Sunni Islam.

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But when complications force Kristoffer into contact with the employees, the impostor is compelled to improvise.

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The Baby Boomers began the transformation as more women came into the workplace but it was the next generation that compelled a rethinking of work roles at every level.

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But before anyone can cancel the canapes, one of the busybody friends turns into a plain old dead body, and Strachey feels compelled to clear the Lothario he first was hired to investigate.

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Historically, we know what encourages convicts to rehabilitate: they must be young, non-violent, dispersed into small communities that know what they are up to, compelled to work, remunerated and punished if they abscond or reoffend.

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