Sentence examples for as they were compelled from inspiring English sources

For them the war was particularly emotionally fraught, as they were compelled to fight Afghan Muslims who believed they were engaged in a holy war.

Jane Austen fans and scholars need not read any further; they are more or less required to attend "Innocent Diversions: A Christmas Entertainment With Jane Austen and Friends," just as they are compelled to take in any Austen-inspired film or public television program.

Its findings are as clear as they are compelling.

Chesterton then adds that this charge may not be entirely true but needs to be addressed by the Jews — as though they were compelled to consider themselves permanently on trial by their persecutors.

But as philosophers they were compelled to examine doctrines and schools that were secular or even antagonistic to Catholicism.

This situation created a pressure on the part of the students, and they were compelled to study as hard as they could within the given time.

JPMorgan Chase and other big banks are confident that such authority would be used only on their rivals and would spare themselves a repeat of their scalding experiences in 2008 when, as they tell it, they were compelled to participate in systemwide bailouts they did not need.

Even people's behavior changes toward me, as if they are compelled to react.

In some stories vampires may enter a home only if they have been invited, and in others they may be distracted by the scattering of objects such as seeds or grains that they are compelled to count, thereby enabling potential victims to escape.

The near-wordless soundtrack is a directorial choice on Krasinski's part — as silent as its characters may be, "A Quiet Place" could easily have been transformed into a voluble movie, in which the characters' thoughts and experiences would be delivered on the soundtrack, as interior monologues, even if they're compelled not to express them aloud to each other.

Living in Cairo for two years because of her husband's work as a television news producer, she said they were treated "as foreigners" and were compelled to return home, despite the difficulties.