Sentence examples for compelled by force from inspiring English sources

"The modern man, who should be a craftsman, but who, in most cases, is compelled by force of circumstances to be a mill operative, has no freedom," she wrote earlier.

To give any other construction to the constitution is to say that it is not made for all, and that all men in this land are not free and equal before the law, but that one class may be so far subjected to involuntary servitude as to be compelled by force to render personal services in a purely private business, with which the public has no concern whatever.

Those who stayed were not compelled by force, but rather by newly formed religious ties and family bonds.

If people are compelled by forces beyond their control (genes or environment), then their actions, no matter how vile, are excusable.

But I'd like to think that I was also compelled by forces outside myself — that, on some level, I might have been dimly aware of the Internet's role in the fulfillment of some ancient, human yearning to externalize our private imaginations into a shared space.

Let's take a closer look at The Conjuring's trailer to see what's going on. 1) The hero of The Conjuring is Patrick Wilson, a man compelled by forces unknown to repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempt to mimic the cover of Craig David's 13-year-old album Born to Do It. 2) Just kidding.

When no help was forthcoming and the armies of the combined nations occupied Warsaw to compel by force of arms the calling of the assembly, no alternative could be chosen save passive submission to their will.

When no help was forthcoming and the armies of the combined nations occupied Warsaw to compel by force of arms the calling of the assembly, no alternative was available save passive submission to their will.

Some philosophers believe that trustworthiness can be "compelled by the force of norms" or, more generally, by the force of social constraints (Hardin 2002, 53; see also O'Neill 2002, Dasgupta 1988).

If they near the wire, they're compelled by magnetic force, and the tumor cell-nanoparticle complex clings to it.

As he notes approvingly, "Locke...argued that the Bible does not propose a system of government (like the divine right of kings)...he emphasised that the religious faith of the individual is meaningful only when based on the 'inward persuasion of the mind' which cannot be compelled by outside force".