The impending increase can force attention to the need for reform.

The increases have forced banks to raise their rates to consumers.

It says the increase forced it to shut three more factories that had employed 800 American workers.

He charged that the increase would also force some of the carters' customers to relocate from the city.

They averaged $4,500 per household, and the increase has forced many elderly people out of town.

That increase, combined with cuts in the budget for teaching assistants, has forced him to change how he assesses students.

The increase in the reserve forces the company to take the $485 million charge.

Still, the rapid increase of women in the labor force has forced the federation to take up the issue of abortion.

Insurers had asserted that an increase in lawsuits was forcing them out of the commercial liability field.

The increases forced Norwalk to scale back plans for a new high school.