She was forced to confess.

I had to look for another god.

In some cases, locals were even coerced by authorities to move.

The war in Mindanao in the Philippines has forced thousands of residents to flee their homes.

Diaspora The Civil War forced many Guatemalans to start lives outside of their country.

Unfortunately both encountered a typhoon on leaving the Philippines and were wrecked on the coast of Japan.

Earlier this week the Libya sponsored aid ship Al Amal ( hope ) attempted to sail to the Gaza Strip (but was forced to change course for Egypt).

Typically, a mobile carrier would only hand over the key if compelled to do so by law enforcement.

If forced to pay, the business might be obliged to declare bankruptcy or exit the market altogether.

Some elementary schools in China force children who under perform to wear a green scarf. (via Ministry of Tofu)

Last December, Chinese authorities set up new measures that forced microbloggers to sign up with their real names.

Cienfuegos's column fought the Battle of Yaguajay in December and, after a fight, forced the garrison to surrender on December 30, 1958.

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.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, internal and external pressures eventually forced Kolingba to adopt the beginnings of a democratic approach.

Events in recent months show that the Al Asqa Martyrs Brigades have forced even Arafat to take their demands into consideration.

Korea became a protectorate of Japan in 1895 when Japan forced Emperor Gojong to abdicate and Japanese assassinated his consort, Myeongseong.

My delegation is following this new crisis with great concern it has already forced the Palestinian Authority to declare a state of emergency in the occupied territories.

The traditional hunger gap , which peaks this month, has forced a growing number of people to rely on humanitarian assistance during the past 90 days.

In 1997, a convention, under the auspices of the OECD, which obliged everybody to change their laws and criminalize foreign bribery.

Luckily for Afghan women, international pressure forced then President Hamid Karzai to reject the proposal and replace the provision with a prolonged detention to punish adultery.

The conflict in Afghanistan also forced millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan, particularly in the northwestern regions.

The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union.

The car loan market underwent a mini boom in 2003 04, but non repayment rates in excess of 50 forced banks to pull back.

After Prussia signed a peace treaty with France on 5 April 1795, Austria was forced to carry the main burden of war with Napoleonic France for almost ten years.

Miller was forced by public opinion to resign from the cabinet in April 2014 because she had over claimed expenses which the general public believed to have been a deliberate act of fraud.

Mr. Laurin (Canada) (spoke in French) This year, natural disasters of unprecedented scale and ongoing conflicts have forced millions of people to seek humanitarian assistance.

Despite the error, and trees taller than briefed that forced a steeper descent than rehearsed, the assault team crash landed into the courtyard of Sơn Tây prison at 02 19 with all weapons firing.

Second, the food crisis of the mid 1990s forced many people to search for livelihoods elsewhere, at times crossing the border into other countries.

State run media organs have been forced to admit that these protests test the Party s will to maintain power.

Tarek Amr, a member of Global Voices' Egypt team, has been offline since January 26, when the government forced most ISPs to close shop.

The Austrian peace treaty compelled Russia to accept peace at Niš', forcing them to give up their claim to Crimea and Moldavia, but allowing them to build a port at Azov without fortifications or have any fleet in the Black Sea.

Images of a woman forced to undergo a late term abortion in Ankang Shaanxi Province in China have been circulating widely in Chinese social media and micro blogging platforms triggering furious reactions.

The recent brutal wave of violence makes real and lasting improvements to the humanitarian situation impossible and has forced many returnees back to the camps they had left just weeks before.

Likewise, we use force to indicate not only physical force, as in, Rose forced the door to open, but also interpersonal force, as in, Rose forced Sadie to go, not necessarily by manhandling her, but by issuing a threat.

Russia was also forced to confiscate land from Korean settlers who formed the majority of Primorsky Krai's population due to a fear of an invasion of Korea and ousting of Japanese troops by Korean guerrillas.

Issues that we once regarded as medium term are becoming more urgent.

Similarly, although the 2006 European heat wave was less intense, water and heat problems forced Germany, Spain, and France to take some nuclear power plants offline and reduce operations at others.

Although Iran is one of the world's largest producers of petroleum, rapid increases in demand and limited refining capacity has forced the country to import about 40 of its gasoline, at an annual cost of up to 7 billion.

The rise of far right parties with a pronounced xenophobic ideology which support the strengthening of fortress Europe against illegal immigration, is causing European governments to adopt a tougher position on the issue in an attempt to counteract the populist discourse of the far right.

Serbia has a long history of excellence in maths and computer sciences which has created a strong pool of engineering talent, although economic sanctions during the 1990s and chronic underinvestment in research forced many scientific professionals to leave the country.

In October 2004, violence in the region forced Obasanjo s government to negotiate with militia leader Asari Dokubu, after his men attacked a series of Royal Dutch Shell oil facilities and threatened to burn down the area.

Then, over the next four weeks they allowed one group of mice to run inside their rodent wheels, an activity most mice enjoy, while they forced the other group to work harder on minitreadmills at a speed and duration controlled by the scientists.

After 53 hours in custody, having been shackled at the ankles, strip searched, blood tested, forced to sleep on a concrete floor without a mattress or pillow and having no access to toilet paper or eating utensils, I can happily say I AM SAFE OUT OF JAIL AND ABU DHABI!

Thousands of Chinese convicts, for example, have been pressed into service on projects undertaken by state run Chinese companies in Sri Lanka, a strategically important country for China as it seeks to enhance its regional position in the Indian Ocean.

In all these cases, one can see the once silenced woman or child of either gender take charge of the obligation and the right to speak to her or his own situation and recast the public story.