Three-fourths of the charities that answered the survey said the recession had forced them to dismiss workers or cut other spending.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Four years ago, the labor agency estimated that more than twelve million people were in some form of forced labor.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

The depression ended. The economic depression of the eighteen nineties forced Americans to worry first about developments at home.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

So the black players on the team were forced to ask their white teammates to buy food for them.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The nineteen seventy-nine revolution forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi out of power and made Ayatollah Khomeini the country's leader.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"Instead of shopping in just the regular shopping mall we were kind of forced to go to these bargain type shops."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Some of the children reportedly were forced to kill or harm other children while part of the Lord's Resistance Army.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

He was known for being so stingy he refused to spend any of his money, unless forced to do so.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

A third new law forced companies doing business with the federal government to pay workers a minimum wage.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

As president in eighteen fifty-three, Pierce was forced to choose between two policies on the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

To do this,he had to urge Congress to kill a law which forced the government to buy silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

McClellan was fooled. And after a day of fierce fighting, he was forced to withdraw from the area.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

He says some of the victims are forced to work in homes of the wealthy and at restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.06.14