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In a warm front, a mass of relatively warm air pushes against a block of cooler air and is forced to flow up over it.
BBC: Turbulence ahead: Flight heads into storm's heart
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Being forced to submit to a privacy-rending body scan or pat-down - unpleasant as it may be - is not likely to compare to the trauma that can flow from being forced to submit to showering or sharing a bunkroom with someone who finds you sexually attractive.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Introducing 'forced intimacy'
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Human rights organizations say the flow of Iraqi refugees forced out of the country by violence is a silent crisis.
NPR: Iraqi Exiles in Syria Look for Ways to Move On
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When a current flows in such a wire, the electrons that flow as electricity are forced to align their spins to those of the local atoms embedded in the wire.
ECONOMIST: How to record a memory on a wire
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Both sides may have to put off work on the new Joseph and Joyce Wing of the local hospital while donors are forced to back to plumbing jobs, making the flow of cash work as well as it can until new supplies arrive.
FORBES: Briefing Book: A. Michael Lipper
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We've been forced to cancel elective operations so that we can maintain the flow of patients that are brought in by ambulance.
BBC: Royal Cornwall Hospital ambulance waiting crisis 'over'
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Businesses are being forced to scramble for needed investments, generally having to make do with cash flow and working out of profits.
FORBES: The Deflation Question
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Remittances from overseas workers make up a tenth of the Philippines' economy, and are important enough to have forced the pace of anti-money laundering reforms to avoid risking any interruption to the flow of money from overseas through the banking system.
BBC: A rickshaw pedals through flooded streets
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That is boosted cash flow, but it has also led to lack of product in some markets, and forced RIM to ramp up production to meet demand.
WSJ: RIM Places Risky BlackBerry Bet
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Despite an overhaul of the bankruptcy laws in 1998, it is still awesomely difficult to foreclose on debts: the definition of bankruptcy turns on net worth, as opposed to cash flow, and the process is slowed down by a two-track system that separates forced restructurings from forced liquidations.
ECONOMIST: Thailand's biggest problem is debt