According to Reuters, heavy fighting in Deraa was followed by army air strikes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad struggled to hold on in the city, which lies close to a key border with Jordan.
But the implied parallels between the predatory Tony and the modest Mercer, who confesses to a colleague that he briefly lusted after Theresa, strike me as forced and arbitrary: it is as if Gilman is trying to prove that stalking is simply the extreme manifestation of a universal instinct.
(Wittgenstein's attempt to reduce the mind-body problem to a linguistic puzzle, for example, now strikes most philosophers as forced and unconvincing).
At times, her tears struck the interviewers as "forced," according to Newsweek.
The rule was introduced by the N.C.A.A. in 2008 to protect defenseless players and reduce head injuries, and if it struck purists as anti-football, it also forced an examination of frequently poor tackling technique.
Even as familiar as the story line is, this kind of payback does not usually strike as fast or with as much force as it did Sunday to golf's former top player, Tiger Woods, who already has had a number of things not go his way this year.
It struck with a force 185 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb, flattened 80 million trees and reduced hundreds of reindeer to charred carcasses.
He pulls it back and pushes it with force; just as it strikes forward with a breezy whoosh, there is a blackout.
Ellsworth was enthusiastic, intending the special strikes as gifts, but was forced to share them with Company president Higinbotham, to Ellsworth's dismay.
But the union faces a difficult task in controlling the expectations of workers who, much more than the union's leadership, see the strikes as a way to force G.M. to back away from its plans to expand production overseas.
France's highest court has anyway struck it down as anti-constitutional, forcing him to go away and come up with a second version.
