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• Like in the Cold War, other countries will be forced to choose sides.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
• It’s forced golfers to choose sides and has now ruined one friendship.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• There are ways in which you’re constantly forced to choose sides.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
  — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Now, a political firestorm over the bank's hometown of Hong Kong could force the bank to choose sides.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 9 July 2020
• During the civil war, Cregan Stark will be asked to choose sides.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
• Members could choose sides among those splinter groups.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• Neither has the votes to win at this stage, and Republicans are beginning to choose sides.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The redrawn line dividing east from west was compelling Ukraine and other nations to choose sides.
  — Frank Costigliola, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2023
• Peyton Manning, who didn’t choose sides in the sale process, will also be looking for an advisory role with the team.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• And adopting a Cold War–style, zero-sum framework, in which the rest of the world is forced to choose sides, only reinforces this dynamic.
  — Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Goaded by America to choose sides, many key emerging markets may elect to work with China.
  — Ben Harburg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• However, the Tesla CEO has been keen not to choose sides in the conflict and refuses to have his technology used as an asset in the conflict.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• From ad agencies to law firms, production houses to P.R. flacks, industry enablers may have to choose sides for the first time in history.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• Lincoln’s responding call for troops made plain that there would be a war and that Tennessee, like other fence-sitting Upper South states, would have to choose sides.
  — Daniel Feller, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
• Most striking was Thursday’s 58 abstentions by those who declined to choose sides in a way that some said would undermine the U.N. system itself.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• But that communication style inevitably forces your children to choose sides, and no caregiver should want that.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Advertisement The essence of the controversy is this: Competing interest groups, in different ways, asked AS to choose sides in the war.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Republicans said that under the Democrats’ plan the state would abandon neutrality and choose sides in labor disputes.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
• The discovery of an underground civilization on Sask-E forces Destry to choose sides in a conflict that alters her beloved planet’s future.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• On season two with the U.S. contestants, players quickly choose sides in a war between loyalty and strategy.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• Unlike Washington, Beijing is not asking leaders to choose sides.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Donna endearingly struggled to choose sides in the matchup, eventually settling for a split Chiefs-Eagles jacket that donned equal support for both of her boys.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Many Israelis and Palestinians are equally convinced that their victimhood justifies extreme and inhumane measures, and the rest of the world feels compelled to choose sides.
  — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
• And like it or not, the people who run sports have been forced to choose sides in the ongoing public debate about vaccinations and pressed on how to handle a pandemic that waxes and wanes with maddening unpredictability.
  — oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
• Trump, until now, has been more ignored than embraced by House Republicans who have preferred not to choose sides in the still-developing 2024 presidential primary.
  — Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• As Saturday’s parade day approached, pressure grew to choose sides over how to define inclusivity, Christianity and the spirit of Christmas.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
• But former Belarusian head of state Mr. Shushkevich rejects the idea that Belarus should have to choose sides politically or economically.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2021
• The task of finding common ground is only getting harder as the great power competition between China and the United States intensifies, placing pressure on other nations to choose sides.
  — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• To many on the left, the Israel-Hamas war is spurring what feels like a permanent rupture, when previously sublimated differences become impossible to ignore and everyone must choose sides.
  — Molly Ball, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024