Adoption is a personal choice, but in this case the parents have had no choice. |
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Elizabeth, having no choice but to continue driving, adjusted the rear-view mirror so that she didn't have to watch. |
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The examples that you gave show us that it is not that we have no choice but to be kiasu, but most of us are kiasu just because we are able to. |
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So nuts to you if you fix the sucker and then fail to get it working decently and have no choice but load Windows again. |
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There is no way I would have wanted to withdraw him from school where all his friends are, but I felt I was given no choice. |
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I may become bald, through no choice of my own and with no possibility of regrowing my hair. |
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Beirne decided he had no choice but to temporarily close shop and let his employees go until the Army released him from service. |
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In the end I decided I had no choice but to leave the training school and offer my services as a spy to another group. |
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Robinson's brother had no choice but to retake his final exams to ensure a place at an Oxbridge college. |
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Egypt has no choice but to maintain a presence in a country with which it shares the bonds of Arabism and religion. |
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Sometimes I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands on the road but I have no choice because I can't manage on the footpath. |
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We don't want to keep moving around all the time, but we have no choice and we are sick of being treated like animals. |
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So he had no choice but to listen to the advice of his friend and enrolled a course for motormen. |
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It's literalness is so easily consumed that there is no choice but for the work to be ephemeral and meaningless. |
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My voice was small, but everyone turned round and she had no choice but to acknowledge me. |
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When the music resumed at midnight, I had no choice but to go sit in the living room and look at pictures of lolcats until it stopped. |
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It is those in rural areas, who have no choice, who deserve better from the government. |
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The reality sinks in when they attain puberty by which time they are told they have no choice. |
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Organizations have no choice but to implement solutions that can deliver clear audit trails of user activity across the organization. |
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The vast majority of sites gave users no choice about inclusion on mailing lists or having their name passed on to affiliates or third parties. |
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They really tore him down so he had no choice but to come out at midnight and do something to repair his image. |
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She was like a terrier worrying an elk hound, charging in and pressing an attack so fast and furious he had no choice but to defend himself. |
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One could see Martin getting testy, but he had no choice but to answer the questions, which were good questions. |
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But we were young and stubborn and we thought there was simply no choice more obvious than the second class train. |
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Ricky and Fred love their worn-out clothes so much that the girls see no choice but to sell their rags to a local second-hand store. |
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If we rid ourself of hindsight and our own contemporary mindset, we can see that they had no choice but to opt for the latter. |
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Given the state of the economy, they feel they have no choice but to batten down the hatches and prepare for a bad year. |
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If we are tied to a specific date, though, we have no choice in the matter. |
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Unless they've some magical beastie to use for it, they've no choice but to move her by horse, wagon, or afoot. |
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They say they had no choice but to pack up by torchlight yesterday after the electricity to Woolston House, a former textile mill, was cut off. |
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A spokeswoman for Wessex Water said there was no choice but to pump diluted sewage into rivers. |
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Maybe years of living under totalitarian dictatorships left them no choice but to live large in whatever small ways they can. |
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They had no choice but to turn around and go back to conditions that might have ended their lives. |
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In the end she had no choice but have them follow her because they trailed her. |
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The firm says it has no choice but to shed the jobs because there has been a fall in demand for bronze and brass products. |
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Many people living in Svay Sor know the land they live and work on is heavily mined but they have no choice but to work the fields. |
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One of those singles was due to the Queen's returner misplaying the ball near the goal line and having no choice but to concede the point. |
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The U-boat command had no choice but to continue to fight right to the bitter end. |
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If your boat has come up the coast along the Delaware shore, you'll have no choice but to make the run across the bay's mouth. |
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Not long ago this led to a spate of uncontrolled closures, with subpostmasters believing they had no choice but to leave. |
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If you don't have money you have no choice but to enter the under-funded, under-resourced environment of a government school. |
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I too, had no choice, for my mare fairly bolted after them, and I held on as hard as I could. |
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If you do that, the body will have no choice but to turn to other sources of energy, namely stored fat. |
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You're better off when you're away from town, and you've got no choice but to get down to brass tacks. |
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Only mouldy heels to be found in the bread bin, so I have no choice but to venture into the outside world unless I want to wither away. |
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If your opponent was prepared to exert himself to the utmost to achieve his objective, you had no choice but to do the same. |
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Unless consumers make a fuss they will soon have no choice on how they enjoy digital music. |
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Those who were noble, titled, in their own right, she would have no choice but to accept their presence at court. |
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If you cannot give that promise, and will not release yourself from your vow, I have no choice but to spill your blood out upon the sand. |
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The second part of the law was simple but brutal, stating that all non-humans had no choice in their government. |
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The bonded workers, frequently non-literate, have no choice but to depend on the word of the employer about when the loans are finally paid off. |
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If we want vehicles to be less polluting, then we have no choice but to find an alternative fuel. |
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If we felt that it is no longer in the interests of our children to take part then we would have no choice but to withdraw. |
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Council officers have had no choice but to plot a route using roads, which they accept is not ideal. |
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I felt I was stabbing him in the back when I put in the report, but really I had no choice after the last incident with the intruder. |
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I supposed if there is nothing but noise in your life you have no choice but to deal with it. |
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Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs. |
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I felt I was capable of doing this on my own as well, but I had no choice and no windscreen wipers. |
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A person, a society and a country which is weak and helpless has no choice but to resort to violence. |
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If we extend it one more year, they'll have no choice but to cede lands to us in payment. |
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I'll amaze her with my charm and suaveness in the pool and she'll have no choice but to fall madly in love with me. |
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We searched high and low but there was no trace of the poor fellow and we had no choice but to continue. |
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You'll have no choice but to communicate and interact with co-workers, customers and head honchos. |
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Her injuries were so horrific that the vet had no choice but to put her to sleep. |
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Brave Trooper Joey Doe has no choice but to speed his cruiser in hot pursuit, gunning the engine to dizzying speeds along suburban street. |
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Her husband had no choice but to agree with that most patriotic of statements. |
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Sandown clerk of the course Andrew Cooper said there was no choice but to abandon racing at the Surrey course. |
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And then her son would have no choice but to face the greatest peril of his life. |
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And even if that memory had not been etched imperishably into his heart and mind, he had no choice. |
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There's no choice but to speak ill of the dead and ask impertinent questions about the emperor's clothes. |
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I do not think it was so much a question of contesting the issue, but the fact was that there was no choice about the matter. |
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And I'd prefer not to delete posts, but those suggesting infighting within the staff gave me no choice. |
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If we want our own rights to bodily integrity preserved, we have no choice but to uphold hers. |
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Since the newspaper staff is inundated with these letters everyday, they have no choice but to publish at least some of them. |
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The men were a mixed crew, many of them itinerants, and Bill Clarke had no choice but to rule them with an iron hand. |
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I've been a flower girl, a bridesmaid and even a maid of honor, and because of that I had no choice but to take dance lessons. |
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The school board said it had no choice but to let the couple attend the dance, given the ruling. |
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The people who live in a food desert, therefore, have no choice but to eat unhealthily. |
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Insiders revealed that the handsome star was left with no choice but to retract his complaint quickly returned to work without a fuss. |
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Unable to prevent the sliding, the authorities had no choice but to abandon the project. |
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These poorer countries had no choice but to accept privatized municipal services as a way of ensuring they'd pay back their loans. |
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Some officials said there is no choice but to accept the defectors, while others insisted they should be treated like ordinary refugees. |
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Today's deviants have declared war on the society as a whole, so we have no choice but to wage war against them. |
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The judge had no choice but to immediately discharge the jury and swear in another. |
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But why did you have no choice between religious obedience and disobedience? |
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I must confess I had no choice but to remove the rabbit's entrails and bones with my teeth. |
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I think the choice between recommendations of qualified avian vets vs. online armchair professionals is really no choice at all. |
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They were expecting that they would have no choice but to use deadly force because they could expect no mercy or no quarter themselves. |
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He had no choice but to ease his foot on the accelerator and let his speed drift down to about 20 mph. |
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To argue otherwise now is to acquiesce in a rhetoric which those of us who accept universal human rights have no choice but to reject as racist. |
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But he said nothing and Allie had no choice but to follow him as they began their weary trek across the wide, empty beach. |
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The engine temperature shot up to well over 100 degrees and I had no choice but to bring the car into the pits. |
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Although in the past I know I have fully expressed my dislike for getting taken to school by my parents, during rag week we really had no choice. |
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Let's not agonise over the people's choice in an election where no choice was offered. |
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We've got you over a barrel, because you and your taxpayers have no choice but to see this through, so why should we pay? |
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Many members enjoy working out and then relaxing in the hydrotherapy area, but now we will have no choice but to keep an eye on our watches. |
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As a representative for a district where people oppose gay rights, he said he had no choice. As if someone had held a gun to his head, forcing him to run for office. |
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Nevertheless, when Gurowski publicly aired his grievances, Lincoln and Seward had no choice but to cashier him. |
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We have no choice but to bring our science into touch with our conscience. |
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They have no choice but to turn in for work the week after half term knowing that a quarter of their class are still enjoying themselves on holiday somewhere around the world. |
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When illegal levels of cancer-causing bromate chemicals were discovered, Coke had no choice but to recall 500,000 bottles and abandon the drink's launch. |
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Even if what you see is an unwelcome glimpse of grey, if you're a professional gardener, you simply have no choice but to get out of bed and get your sou'wester on. |
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He had no choice but to take Meckiff out of the attack when he was no-balled for throwing on the second, third and ninth deliveries of his opening over. |
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We discovered two cases of cholera, one of TB, one of the dreaded lurgy while another was afflicted with a dropsy so massive we had no choice but to put him to sleep. |
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He had no choice, apparently, but to go sleep in the bushes in his local park, where, happily, he bechanced upon a coat that provided a smidgin of warmth. |
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Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road. |
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Turning onto the driveway you come to a rolling stop, left with no choice but to contemplate the puddly stream that marks the crossing into this whole other world. |
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By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands. |
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Goldhagen depicts it as being so deeply inculcated in the German psyche that it was almost as if they had no choice. |
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There was no way we could carry on, no choice but to limp homewards. |
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At first he didn't respond but Sarah was such a good kisser and she was provoking him to kiss her back the way he used to, he had no choice but to kiss her back. |
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What alarms the consumer is that the proposed restrictions will put their health in jeopardy and give them no choice whatsoever except resort to drugs. |
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They had no choice but to stay on in Asia, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with Greek philosophy and classical ideas. |
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Yet if she is in a birthing pool it would be unlawful forcibly to remove her against her wishes and the midwife would have no choice but to deliver her in the pool. |
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Thanks to restrictive clauses in dealer warranties, many new-car owners have no choice but to have their vehicles serviced within a single dealer franchise. |
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Arbogastes, of barbarian Frankish origins and thus constitutionally excluded from holding imperial power, had no choice but to rebel and appoint his own nominee emperor. |
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Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence. |
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I set the pancakes on my dresser and gathered up the blankets I'd laid out for Nell, lethargically deciding that I had no choice but to sleep on my windowsill. |
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King was a fatalist, resigned to whatever happened, telling aides he had no choice in how he would die, or when. |
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The most frustrating aspect of it all is that I have no choice. |
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She replied that she had never heard of such a ghastly deed, and, consequently, she had no choice but to return my annual stipend unendorsed and uncashed. |
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On the other hand, foreigners, stuck with unconvertible greenbacks since 1971, have had no choice but to adopt dollars, rather than gold, as the world's reserve asset. |
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Based on my own reattach I had no choice but to agree with these conservative claims. |
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She roped you in and now you have no choice but to follow her lead. |
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The unfenced roads through the Westwood and the close proximity between cattle and cars would have meant an unacceptable risk of the infection spreading, and we had no choice. |
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But I had no choice, the doddery old so-and-so intercepted me as I reached the stairs and I could hardly turn round and tell him to sling his hook. |
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For the time being it leaves the establishments with no choice other than to stand over customers and supervise their use of the portable chip and PIN machines. |
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Actually, where the latter is concerned you've no choice, but I often find myself turning off the autofocus and twisting the focus ring manually, too. |
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The Brotherhood left no choice for the whole rest of society, united, to reject their governance. |
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Knowing the gas inside the cylinders had overheated, firefighters had no choice but to order roads and homes to be cleared within a 200m radius of the site. |
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And again, we thought she was very beautiful and very nice, but she just wasn't able to fulfill her duties, and therefore, we had no choice but to terminate her. |
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But without any evidence of impairment, the FHP had no choice but to give Woods a routine traffic citation. |
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If you have no choice but to handhold the camera, you can try a very fast ISO setting like 3200 or 6400 and see what kind of results you can get with shorter exposure times. |
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He doesn't, of course, but instead winds it up until there is no choice but to feel torn between equally extreme alternatives in much the same way Jeffrey is torn. |
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It is as if theoreticians have told novelists that they have no choice but to fail, and novelists, despite their long history of success, have believed them. |
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Faced with Macmillan's prediction of doom, the cabinet had no choice but to accept these terms and withdraw. |
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There was no choice but to repitch the tents and radio their failure to cross. |
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He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion. |
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Denmark had no choice but to sell many of its exports to Germany instead of overseas nations. |
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Although she detested her client, the taxi rank system meant she had no choice but to take the case. |
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Often, half-heartedness signals when we feel duty-bound and believe we have little or no choice in what we do. |
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And this can happen quicker than you think and you will have no choice but resow those dead areas. |
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The property never had a hydro pole on it so we had no choice but be off the grid. |
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When Parliament decided that Gaveston should be exiled the king was left with no choice but to comply. |
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Professor Rennie warned the strain of staying at home could take its toll on men who have no choice about becoming house husbands. |
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Netanyahu had no choice but to at least feint in this direction. |
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The campaign never came to a major battle, and Llywelyn soon realised he had no choice but to surrender. |
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People like you, I suspect, are monoglots and have no choice but to speak English. |
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This left King William IV no choice but to restore Earl Grey to the premiership. |
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Having already tired of life in Italy, and having burnt her bridges in Petersburg, Anna has no choice but to move to the country. |
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International free trade improved the country and in order for Americans to prosper from a strong economy they had no choice but to embrace it. |
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Wild now feels she has no choice but to temporarily abandon the documentary format altogether and reapproach the subject in a dramatic feature. |
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Meanwhile as the metamarket booms, the few remaining souls who did not get in on the ground floor, have no choice but to pursue eschatology. |
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Sometimes one has no choice but to shake one's head in disbelief like an Oregon Duck bobble-head doll in the back window of a car. |
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A shocked Sullivan had no choice but to position the meagre 'second line' to fill the gaps. |
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He was unable to form a government, leaving King William with no choice but to recall Lord Grey. |
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If you are a Halo completionist and need to experience every moment of the Halo story, you have no choice. |
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The Caledonians had no choice but to fight, or starve over the next winter. |
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Cathal managed to return to Connacht and had himself proclaimed king, leaving Felim with no choice but to return to put down his rebellion. |
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I don't know how else they do it,'' said Robert Glaum, wanting no choice but a neighbor's home. |
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By September 28, 1939, the three Baltic Republics felt they had no choice but to permit Soviet bases and troops on their territory. |
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Even the biggest doe-eyed, pearl-clutching Etsy muffin has to find some way to make it okay to be negative, because we have no choice. |
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However, ships damaged during the crossing frequently had no choice but to put in there for emergency repairs. |
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Jamie contracted hypothermia and severe frostbite and, in 1999, surgeons had no choice but to remove his limbs. |
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Following the overthrow of the sultanate, Ibn Battuta had no choice but to leave India. |
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When the Orsini offered to admit the French to their castles, Alexander had no choice but to come to terms with Charles. |
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He had no choice but to rely on local warlords' military power, and gradually lost his interest in politics and ceased to intervene in political struggles. |
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In order to obey Kuratowski's theorem, Nature had no choice but to bring in more particles, notably the leptons and the electroweak interaction bosons. |
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Thrust together in a small vehicle for hours, or even days, they would have no choice but to get to know each other and the result might be a Chauceresque exchange of stories. |
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With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail. |
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The fuck-boy is not really gay. But he's powerless and so has no choice. |
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If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you. |
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Henry now had no choice but to put this great matter into the hands of Thomas Wolsey, and Wolsey did all he could to secure a decision in Henry's favour. |
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When they refused, he gave the claimants three weeks to agree to his terms, knowing that by then his armies would have arrived and the Scots would have no choice. |
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In radio, British audiences had no choice apart from the upscale programming of the BBC, a government agency which had a monopoly on broadcasting. |
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An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card. |
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Celiacs have no choice but to adhere to the regimen, but some are choosing this type of cuisine whether they suffer the agonizing pain of the disease or not. |
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Given Didion's resourcelessness, which is endemic to this pragmatic and therapeutic age, she has no choice but to find comfort in this rather paltry common wisdom. |
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India's spinners had several good shouts for leg before wicket turned down, and with the Decision Review System not employed, they had no choice but to take their medicine. |
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The court had no choice but to enter Florida's school voucher wars. |
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Hakim al-Zamili, a leading Shi'ite Arab politician in Baghdad, last week said PM Abadi had no choice other than requesting Russian air-strikes against ISIS on Iraqi soil. |
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