Sentence examples similar to civility compels from inspiring English sources
Perhaps, in the most practical sense, we might agree that some basic understanding of civility is what compels us to hold doors open for strangers or to avoid cussing out the elderly.
Colmes made the sensible point that politesse and tact should compel a certain degree of civility.
Some who compulsively post to social networks are unlikely to follow civility codes voluntarily, prompting some places to make rules compelling it.
The police depend on civility quite as much as they enable it; and they certainly can't compel it.
We may disagree on issues, but we do so with civility and mutual respect.... "We have a crisis of governance - a crisis that compels us to work together to move America forward..
In the comparatively decentralized space, we have become compelled to take everyone's grievances seriously, even when those claims for civility and courteous debate have been made in bad faith.
On the other hand, "mademoiselle" can expose a woman to pity or to advances; it compels a woman to define herself in relation to a man, constituting "an intrusive and condescending civility".
Ultimately, the CAR crisis and Operation Sangaris' failure may compel the French to pursue more realistic aims in Africa and abandon romantic dreams of exporting civility to Africa at the barrel of a gun.
