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Examples of forcing

forcing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A popular explanation holds that large green jurisdictions have been forcing their trading partners to trade or ratchet up their regulation.
Initially, women face changing lifestyles, new and unfamiliar clinical situations forcing changed routines.
The chapter on national and musical identity is interesting, especially in these days of converging multi-national record companies forcing homogeneity on the mass market.
We see world consciousness forcing its way through outworn institutions.
It therefore is important that forcing bulbs be examined carefully and critically very shortly after moving into the forcing house.
Note that all four phases are dated about 50 years apart, consistent with a pattern of solar forcing of drought during periods of cold.
However, this relative velocity is small compared to that which the red cell experiences in navigating through the microcirculation due to pressure forcing.
If forcing were added to the second equation rather than to the first, then sample paths would be continuous and differentiable.
The progressive democratization of local and national politics reinforced this, forcing parties into more specialized and sophisticated techniques of organization.
The preferred steady solution becomes unstable against time-periodic perturbations a t a higher value of the forcing parameter.
Steady regimes were observed when the forcing frequency was gradually increased (at constant wavemaker amplitude), until a sharp transition to a modulated regime occurred.
Initially, the television screen was covered, forcing the par ticipants to base their comments solely on the interviewees' voices.
At higher frequencies, these eddies which formed a t the forcing frequency were small and quickly lost their identities by coalescence.
At higher frequencies, these eddies which form a t the forcing frequency are small and are quickly lost by coalescence.
If the frequency of forcing terms is comparable to the inertia-gravity wave frequency, then the inertia-gravity wave response will be important.
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