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Discover LudwigThe phrase "action is compelled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express that a certain action is being forced or necessitated by circumstances or external factors.
Example: "In situations of crisis, action is compelled to ensure the safety of all involved."
Alternatives: "action is required" or "action is mandated."
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Typically, the classical compatibilists' benchmark of impeded or encumbered action is compelled action.
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What is relevant to whether an action was compelled or not is the nature of the cause (i.e. the object), not the nature of the causal relation.
Freedom and humanity are accomplished by action in the public eye, transcending labor to which man is compelled by necessity.
God is compelled to judge them as judgmental persons (yet: "you shall be known by your fruit", actions and attitudes).
"The prophet said when we see evil action we are compelled to change it with our hand, challenge it with our tongue or at least hate it in our heart.
"I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course," he said.
Further, the series of actions in which addicts engage in order to reach the stage at which they can consume their drug is not merely too extended and too complex to plausibly be regarded as compelled by an irresistible desire; it also seems too sensitive to the kinds of incentives and disincentives that normally modulate action to be compelled.
Climate change could be "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century", according to clinicians in a 2009 Lancet report and faced with this threat, the case for the health profession to take action on emissions is compelling.
Regardless of the reception of the hearers, regardless of the efficacy of their actions, prophets are compelled to SHOW the truth.
The proposed legislation would require non-disclosure of any such state-enforced actions that companies are compelled to take.
He added that if the authorities do not take action, Japanese troops might be compelled to patrol both the Settlement and the Concession.
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