Sentence examples for Impelled to act from inspiring English sources

The slaughter of civilians is impossible to watch without feeling morally impelled to act.

Any relation to a certain world leader who is never in doubt and is impelled to act on his suspicions as an article of faith is purely intentional.

It is unfortu nate that Canada felt impelled to act unilaterally, instead of waiting for an international agreement on the wider territorial sea.

This is similar to the Buddhist explanation of how we are impelled to act out habitual patterns of behaviour (the twelve Nidanas), which also postulates a gap between desire to act and action itself, during which we can alter the chain of causality.

President Obama has said on numerous occasions that if the Assad regime used biological weapons against rebel forces that America would be impelled to act for moral reasons.

Far more than with the storming of the Bastille almost three months earlier, it was then that the revolution was really launched -- though both were mysterious moments when citizens felt impelled to act and acted together, becoming in the process that mystical body, civil society, the colossus who writes history with her feet and crumples governments with her bare hands.

Now, today, I feel impelled to do so.

So you're impelled to do the things you can.

It should have impelled him to act.

Brown says: "Such were the selfish motives which impelled Gaillard to act in a manner so incompatible with the natural goodness of his heart, the gentleness of his temper, and the urbanity of his manners".

8 The threshold question in this case, therefore, is whether the officers could, on the information which impelled them to act, have procured a warrant for the arrest of Toy.