The inexorability of global warming gave people a reason to reduce automobile use.

Gentlest Guardians marked serene / His early hope, his liberal mien; […]

to supply money for the war

An outraged Parisian gave up skiing when his instructor addressed him as tu, while a fashionable personal trainer insists upon it because he would not feel right about vouvoyer-ing deltoids and abs.[…]Questioned on his use of tu and vous, a Paris doctor said he doesn't know why he addresses his daughter-in-law as vous and his son-in-law as tu or why he tutoyers his golf pro but vouvoyers his golf partners.