Sentence examples for a crisis compels from inspiring English sources
It is difficult to be optimistic, but perhaps there is some hope in the thought that sometimes the very gravity of a crisis compels its solution.
Mr. De La Rosa and the others are citizen-soldiers, members of the Texas National Guard who serve one weekend a month and two weeks each summer -- unless a national crisis compels them to answer the call to duty.
While these traits repel, his bearing in the hour of crisis compels admiration and even wins a measure of sympathy.
– (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted in favour of the Barroso Commission because I am sure that it will be able to meet the challenges that the economic and financial crisis compels us to face with courage and determination.
A heating oil crisis compelled some United States refineries to keep producing heating oil rather than shifting to gasoline.
These poor little chav darlings in their adidas tracksuits lost in a Nietzschean existential crisis, compelled to violence because, as Ole Bob Reitemeier says in Time Magazine of these forlorn little lovelies, "the search for meaning in life is hard".
But one former official turned businessman thought it would probably take a crisis to compel Mr. Li and other leaders to embrace a substantial loosening of political and economic controls.
While past congresses, including recent ones, were poor at legislating, a crisis usually compelled action.
Facing this mini-brand identity crisis compelled us to take on what we've called a "mini-rebrand". We weren't changing our name or logo, but our company descriptions and website content were in serious need of updating.
The confusion shrouding the Congo crisis compelled her to travel to the region herself to gain a first-hand insight of why one of the most resource-rich countries in the world continues to wallow in war, poverty and suffering.
Well before the credit crisis compelled the government to rescue Fannie and Freddie, accounting irregularities had engulfed both companies.
