Freedom. It's not really free. Soldiers have to fight for it everyday.
A.<span>"Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks"
b.</span><span>"both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year"
c."my enemy was right there so i ambushed him and killed hem"
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Are there any options? However I think that a good analogy is obsession and compulsion. Thought and obsession are some things happening in your mind. Both lead to behavior or compulsion; the active results of them.