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On October 29th, a BBC Radio Scotland program was running a competition in which people calling in were asked to spell ventriloquist and kibbutz (among other words, presumably); several callers with “older” voices—they certainly were not children—were unable to do so; does that mean that the Scots are to be excepted from the QES campaign “to compel all children to study formal grammar up to the age of 16” or that the rot set in long ago?
Furthermore, these costs are not likely to depend significantly on the value of the merchandise, and the fee is levied through the power of the Government to compel payment.
Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
No matter how much Clinton might want to brazen it out, advance warning from Starr would compel the president to admit and apologize.
The low wages and long periods of unemployment in agriculture often compel farmworkers to return seasonally to a home base in Mexico.