Marc Lombardo is charming, bearded, 29-year-old school teacher from northern California: he has been staying in McDonald's restaurants until they closed, then sleeping on the street, compelled by his desire to be present for this event.
People see it on their friends, and compelled by a desire to own something they don't need, want it, compounded by the fact that it is a) now out of stock and b) worn by fashion-cognisant types who can sniff out a cult piece a mile off.
New York City has created more than 100 miles of bicycle lanes in recent years to encourage and accommodate the number of people who, compelled by a desire to preserve the environment or preserve their bank accounts, have taken to getting around on two wheels.
And we're compelled by a desire to benefit society.
But Miller was also compelled by a desire to clean up the state's image before the Olympics came to Atlanta.
Supervisors were compelled by a desire to model and promulgate a high standard of general practice and through this to further the standing of GPs in the community.
Perhaps we can understand agents being compelled by their desires, and against their better judgments, to choose immediately available goods, but it is hard to see how they could be compelled against their own judgments to choose goods to be delivered at some later time.
He understands the power of a good story, but he is an uncosy, often scary and troubling novelist: besotted by myth, compelled by death and desire and faith and grief, in love with Milton and Blake, angry with religion, intimate with compromise and complicity and corruption, capable of radiant prose.
Compelled by a nascent desire for innovation and advancement, mankind's quest for technological prowess is rooted in its earliest days.
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.
There are verses in the Glorious Qur'an that remove guilt if a certain course of action is pursued when there is no recourse: "But if compelled by necessity, neither desiring it nor transgressing bounds, there is no sin.
