She made me do it.

Poverty drove him to steal.

The army forced him to resign.

It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.

The reactions to the statements forced the minister to resign.

The torture made him confess to crimes he had not committed.

California s extreme drought forced the governor to declare a state of emergency.

At the time, the risk of a genocide prompted the United Nations to act.

The situation in Indonesia led the UN to adopt a new cluster system to improve coordination.

In Kyrgyzstan in 2005, the Tulip Revolution forced the ouster of Askar Akayev.

The need for reliable suppliers during the Korean War forced a compromise with the Zaibatsus.

The defence attorney claimed that the police had coerced his client into confessing to the crime.

Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla was forced to resign by his own party several weeks later.

A policy that has forced ordinary people to divorce to avoid taxes must be bad governance.

The Nakbeh in 1948 forced many Palestinians to move to Jordan, as well as the West Bank, which was annexed by Jordan after the war.

By the time the IMF approved anything, however, Gaidar had been ousted by a fierce political reaction.

Fukushima Prefecture also experienced a nuclear accident that, alone, forced 160,000 residents to be evacuated from their homes.

Likewise, the Palestinian Intifada of 1987 forced Israel to abandon the politics of inertia and engage in a process that culminated in the Oslo accords.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

Indeed, even Russia whose military intervention in Ukraine has led the West to impose strict economic sanctions offers annual yield of less than 6 on ten year bonds.

Mr Snowden said in his letter that he had faced a severe and sustained campaign of persecution that forced him from his home.

Three major schools in the city St. Francis Grammar School, St. Joseph Convent School and Sacred Heart School were forced to declare a holiday by the city administration.

Queen Christina of Sweden, who had become a Catholic and moved to Rome in December 1655, made Clement X prohibit the custom of chasing Jews through the streets during the carnival.

They seemed to forget that the European project s underlying motivation was political, not economic, which led them to rush into enlargement and set unrealistic goals.

The implementation of austerity policies in the periphery has caused these countries to ask for help and request that Germany take the lead by putting more money on the European table.

After a few months, these popular forums were brought to an abrupt halt, as security services enforced a stringent set of regulations that effectively closed these open gatherings.

The Somali Civil War, an ongoing civil war that started in the 1980s, has not only displaced thousands of people, but also wildlife in the country.

As the fuel shortage resulting from the unofficial blockade made people rely on electricity to cook food, pump water and perform other daily needs, more than 500 transformers that couldn't bear the increased load exploded across the country.

The leaked documents disclosed three companies that supplied fuel for the aerial campaign by the Syrian government that resulted in the deaths of thousands of its own citizens and drove thousands more to Europe's borders in desperation.

The army forced Wilhelm into exile in the Netherlands, where, until his death in 1941, he spread venomous poison where he could the Jews and socialists were to blame he alone was right.

When Japan's asset price bubble burst in 1990 91, Japanese investors pulled out of the US leading to a credit crunch and the mild recession that torpedoed President Bush's re election hopes in 1992. But pitifully low domestic returns on capital soon spurred Japanese investors to resume foreign lending, fueling the massive investment boom of the Clinton era new economy.

But pitifully low domestic returns on capital soon spurred Japanese investors to resume foreign lending, fueling the massive investment boom of the Clinton era new economy.

I m Not Angry was widely praised by film festival audiences but the reaction by hardline members of parliament, state media and conservative pressure groups was quite the opposite, forcing officials to ban special screenings of the film and to cancel a promotional press conference.

And I find myself forced to ask about the strength of a love that would make a man drive to the checkpoint of the Fourth Armored Division, which is headed by Maher Al Assad, the younger brother of the president, and which is notorious for its brutality and harshness.