Sentence examples for compelled by the force of from inspiring English sources

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).

The answer to all these questions, were they forthcoming, would be valuable, for it is when we are thus beckoned and compelled by the force of a book's character as a whole that the reader is most capable of speaking the truth about it if he has the mind.

Even as, compelled by the forces of nature and magic, Demetrius (Elliot Villar) chases Hermia (the lovely-voiced Mireille Enos), and Lysander (Austin Lysy) falls in love with Helena (the astonishing Martha Plimpton), the temporarily mismatched lovers either ignore or express their irritation with the elements that house them.

More humiliating was that the treaty implied that independence had been granted as a beneficent act of João VI, rather than having been compelled by the Brazilians through force of arms.

All four Confederates said they would only surrender, they later recalled, if "compelled by the employment of actual force greater than they could resist".

— every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled by the application of a force to change that state.

Yet, that is our current narrative as we continue to unwaveringly trust in the theory of economic rationality and economic stewardship as the progressive way to move society forward, compelled by the inevitability of global economic and technological forces.

So Jed is compelled by the destinations of his friends.

We're compelled by the performance of marriage in culture.

Yet still he runs for re-election, still he is compelled by the calling of Galatasaray.

He is, it seems, genuinely compelled by the idea of capturing lived experience in paint.