forced development
Britishnoun
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Opponents like the Washington Examiner’s Harry Jaffe contend that restricting building height is healthy because it “has forced development out of downtown and into the neighborhoods.”
From Slate
But in the process of her unduly delayed and then unduly forced development it was plain that she had lost one thing which would have made her mother's heart ache if she had been alive.
From Project Gutenberg
The interests of labor are directly concerned to avoid premature and forced development in so important an industry.
From Project Gutenberg
Emma is to find an instinctive ally in the household retainer – again, a slightly forced development – and her urge to escape becomes manifest.
From The Guardian
Spurred by the construction of a road into their territory and the threat of forced development from outside, the Kuna men have formed a second tribal cooperative to manage the land and water resources of their nearly autonomous homeland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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