Forcing

//ˈfɔɹ.sɪŋ//

"Forcing" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I'm against us forcing the child to go to cram school.

The balance of payments crisis emerged, forcing the government to put a brake on the economy.

Reverse osmosis consists in forcing seawater through a membrane that filters out the salt.

Tom lost his keys, and spent three hours trying to pick the lock, before giving up and forcing a window.

I hit the ball forcing it to roll down from the top of the hill.

I'm not forcing you to pay extra.

I'm not forcing them.

I'm not forcing them to pay extra.

Nobody's forcing you to do that.

Nobody's forcing you.

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orbital / astronomical forcing (effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit)

[…] in improving the transfer function of these proxy data and in modelling the response of the climate system to the astronomical forcing over the last 3 Ma with a particular attention paid to the phase relations between insolation,[…]

Franz Kuhnert, 18881 2.1 WHY ASTRONOMICAL FORCING? In the 1840s, James Croll assumed that the ice ages were driven by changes in the orbit of the Earth. The astronomical origin was likewise taken as natural by Milutin Milankovitch,[…]

The astronomic forcing of climate In the course of its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth's climate has been relatively warm for about 90% of the time. Climate has changed on long time scales in response to the evolution of the Sun and[…]

[…] the 100,000-yr periodicity observed in climate fluctuations may result from the combined effect of a weak (deterministic) astronomic forcing and background environmental noise in a complex, nonlinear system with internal feedbacks.

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