Sentence examples for compelled against from inspiring English sources

I don't even understand it, but I am compelled against my own will to suffer every moment of this agonising stupidity.

The condition of one who contracts to render personal services in connection with the private business of another becomes a condition of involuntary servitude from the moment he is compelled, against his will, to continue in such service.

Mr. Belton gives as much time to less dramatic encounters with modernity, like court clashes over whether Amish parents can be compelled, against their beliefs, to send their children to high school.

The new law stipulated that "no pupil may be compelled, against the pupil's objections or those of the pupil's parents or guardian, to recite the pledge or sing the anthem".

"Under the majority's articulation of the reporter's privilege, or lack thereof, absent a showing of bad faith by the government, a reporter can always be compelled against her will to reveal her confidential sources in a criminal trial," he wrote.

Will any one say that a person who has reached his majority, and who had voluntarily agreed, for a valuable consideration, to serve another as an apprentice for an indefinite period, or even for a given number of years, can be compelled, against his will, to remain in the service of the master?

"We're confident that the evidence is compelling against these defendants," said Jim Roy, the plaintiffs' lead lawyer.

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the use of a defendant's compelled testimony against him or her in American criminal proceedings.

The State would only be denied the power to violate the Fifth Amendment by using the fruits of such compelled testimony against them in criminal proceedings.

All of the cases above cited proceed upon the idea that the prohibition against his being compelled to testify against himself presupposes a legal detriment to the witness arising from the exposure.

Aside from the constitutional and human rights arguments against coerced confessions, there are substantial questions about whether such confessions are reliable; a lawyer's presence offers protection not only against compelled self-incrimination but also against false confession.