• It is a mentality that exists globally, but also a process that is impelled and constrained by economics and law, incentives and regulation.

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  • They seem impelled by ambition and are willing to spend vast sums to achieve grandeur, the mark of a nation that knows it's on the rise.

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  • As her former lover, the ever-impelled Lord Asriel, Timothy Dalton draws as much inspiration from Sir Ranulph Fiennes as he does from his earlier incarnation as James Bond.

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  • And he might have felt impelled by his personal history.

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  • If we were watching a Hollywood comedy, this would be a cue for careful bonding, with the kid gradually drawn out of himself and the feckless adult impelled to take responsibility.

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  • It is as if I am impelled to write and share and somehow communicate both her ideas and those that had developed in me because I once knew someone like her.

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  • Indeed, neither side seems impelled to try very hard.

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  • Ms Rantzen said the welcome she had received in Luton South, "impelled there by the rage many voters were feeling at the time" about the MPs' expenses scandal, had persuaded her to stand.

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  • Those few corporations I have talked to which are serious about enforcing ethical behaviour are regularly impelled by their own guidelines to sack employees who violate ethics policies, never mind claw back their incentive remuneration.

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  • An aroused public impelled British Columbia's then government into new legislation to save old-growth and wilderness areas (so far, 9% in a planned 12% of the province's land), setting tough new standards for logging and increasing replanting.

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  • The jury will be asked to consider if the wife's will had been so overpowered that she had been impelled to commit the offence because she had truly believed she had had no real choice in the matter.

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  • That would be the case if the nation were finally impelled to do the one practical, near-term and affordable thing that would, over time, dramatically reduce our dependence on oil: Wean the U.S. automotive fleet from its current, almost complete reliance on petroleum-derived gasoline.

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  • He was impelled to launch himself into unspoilt rivers simply out of love and compulsion, and because, ever since he had first sat in a kayak, picked up a paddle and found himself alone in wild Nature, he didn't want to do anything else quite as badly.

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  • Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.

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