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According to reports, education minister Lawrence Wong said that the country believes 70% adoption could help push it to its next level of reopening, phase three—but that this could be achieved only through legal compulsion.
SOME PROMINENT EXPOSURE APPS ARE SLOWLY ROLLING BACK FREEDOMSBOBBIE JOHNSONNOVEMBER 23, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Feeling tired and exasperated and overburdened a few weeks ago after working on a long and complicated story and getting very little sleep, I sourly informed Twitter that I felt a compulsion and a God-given right to commit a venial sin.
GENE WEINGARTEN: I FEEL COMPELLED TO COMMIT A VENIAL SINGENE WEINGARTENOCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
So far, these companies have experienced little pushback and are under no compulsion to change.
WHY DO FAST-CASUAL RESTAURANTS GET A PASS ON APPROPRIATION?JENNY DORSEYOCTOBER 5, 2020EATER
However, many public health experts fear that government compulsion is unlikely to be effective, and warn that heavy policing of vaccine uptake could backfire.
LIBERAL, EDUCATED … AND ANTI-VAXXER: PANDEMIC BIRTHS NEW VACCINE DOUBTERSCHARU KASTURIAUGUST 25, 2020OZY
Saint and sinner, believer and infidel, are alike under this compulsion in matters moral—and in all matters.
ST. CUTHBERT'SROBERT E. KNOWLES
At the same time, the moral influences put upon them were those of compulsion and restraint.
A JEWISH CHAPLAIN IN FRANCELEE J. LEVINGER
It was certainly one that was entered into voluntarily by both partners of the marriage; there was no compulsion of law.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMANC. GASQUOINE HARTLEY
It is a sense of on-coming fate, a compulsion to do or to suffer, that produces the illusion of perfect knowledge.
SOME TURNS OF THOUGHT IN MODERN PHILOSOPHYGEORGE SANTAYANA
On the contrary, nothing was taught him by compulsion, and no child could be more full of happiness.
OLIVE LEAVESLYDIA HOWARD SIGOURNEY
Thus has poor mortality been beaten and shapen on the anvils of compulsion and exigency.
FEMINISM AND SEX-EXTINCTIONARABELLA KENEALY

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