Land protests last year forced the company to close its factory in the Indian state of West Bengal.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Earlier this year, a judge in the state of Florida was forced to declare a mistrial after eight weeks in a federal drug case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

State officials were forced to take actions that would clean the water.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Crist was forced to abandon his quest for the Republican Senate nomination because he was badly trailing former state legislator Marco Rubio in the primary race.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But because of the spill, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Marine Fisheries and Louisiana State University were forced to move most of the oysters about 500 kilometers away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

However,the U.S.State Department says Holbrooke will meet with relief organizations and some of the Pakistanis who have been forced from their homes during Pakistan's month-long campaign to dislodge militants from Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Anis Baswedan a political analyst and president of Paramadina University in Jakarta, says most people understood the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf and other domestic concerns that forced Mr.Obama to twice cancel state visits to Indonesia.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Despite the fact that many have been living in Lebanon for generations, they are still refugees, and as such are forced to live in squalid camps, are denied access to the state's social security, health-care or education systems, and can only work in menial jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29