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Throughout the entire debate, in fact, Bradley's facial expressions and body language were those of a grown-up compelled to contend with an obnoxious punk.
Like other reviewers who have not had the leisure to become acquainted with the HDAS gradually, I am compelled to browse through, snatching at pieces here and there.
Bellotti in 1977 it noted: "The critical distinction here is that no shareholder has been 'compelled' to contribute anything.
As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.
His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.