Notably, New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been waging a vigorous campaign to reduce the state's financial commitments to union pension and health plans, and Gov. Jerry Brown has been forced in the same direction in California.

CNN: A victory for curbs on public worker unions

But eventually he was forced to move in another direction.

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At the same time, a huge wave of forced migration went in the other direction: Muslims from the city and its environs were being shipped away to Turkey, under a Greek-Turkish (or more precisely Christian-Muslim) exchange which made both countries ethnically much more homogeneous.

ECONOMIST: Religious tolerance

It said it found instances where the banks failed to explain the risks the customers were taking on, or did not disclose the big costs of cancelling in a proper way, or forced customers into naked speculation on the direction of interest rates.

BBC: Business

To confirm this, Dr Dial measured the direction in which the birds were forced by their wings, by mounting accelerometers on each animal's torso.

ECONOMIST: Birds that don't fly may be using their wings to run uphill

Eventually even the remaining land masses would be destroyed as the direction of offshore winds and the tide forced the coastline ever westwards.

BBC: Spurn Point 'not disappearing'

The Cardiff-based exam board initially refused to implement the regrading and the minister was eventually forced to use his legal powers to issue a direction ordering them to carry it out.

BBC: GCSEs: Leighton Andrews defends lack of early action

The myth of "a waiting period" to report a missing person still lingers, and many families are turned away by officials and forced to begin their journey on their own without any direction or support.

CNN: Missing persons could be just next door

Like the astronauts aboard Apollo 13 who had to build a CO2 filter from whatever was available in their capsule under the direction of engineers back on Earth, we are forced to innovate in real time.

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Not that Boeing is publicly jumping on any scapegoats to wholly blame for the worldwide grounding of its 787 Dreamliners after the Federal Aviation Agency ( FAA ) issued an emergency airworthiness direction (AD) in response to a battery fire that forced an All Nippon Airways plane to make an emergency landing in Japan on January 16.

FORBES: The Dreamliner: Boeing's Big Brand Hangs in the Balance