A defeated Turkey had been forced to accept this, but promptly made fulfilment impossible.
Yet Murdoch has been forced to accept this shift in power.
Mineworker families have been forced to accept pennies because we don't have another choice.
Scottish football does not exactly celebrate diminishing standards but it has been forced to accept them.
Without this extra capital the bank would have been forced to accept a UK government bailout.
It is a cloud of uncertainty that I have been forced to accept, but it unsettles me nonetheless.
Spurred on by public concern, airlines have been forced to accept ever tighter regulations on every aspect of their operations.
Their pay has been frozen and they have been forced to accept a major downgrading of their pension benefits.
Meanwhile, in too many cases, frontline staff have been forced to accept less than the minimum wage.
It is Britain's second-largest bank and it has been forced to accept two bailout packages from the government.
Officially, unemployment is low, but far too many of us have been forced to accept substandard, insecure jobs, and some have given up the job search altogether.
