Sentence examples for compelled in a from inspiring English sources

The Fifth Amendment provides that one cannot be compelled, in a criminal case, to be a witness against himself.

"On a certain level you don't have any choice — you're unhappy if you're not doing it, so you're compelled in a certain way.

It is a horrible fact that people who for whatever reason feel compelled, in an art gallery, not to stand and look but to scribble, or throw acid, or pull out a hammer, tend to pick the most potent and authoritative works of art for their assaults.

Rather than simply making cooperation more worthwhile (and thus, in a sense, more compelling), this strategy involves arranging for the use of force (which compels in a stronger sense of the term).

Compelling in a comfortably lowbrow way.

When Mr. Kouakou himself danced, his swiftness and fluidity made his choreography compelling in a way the other dancers managed only in spurts.

Less well known and compelling in a different way are his ceramics: pedestal-size, expressionist sculptures of vigorously worked and beautifully glazed clay.

There are a few possible reasons for email's importance to subscription: it may be that email's lower cost is compelling in a subscription market with an ever-increasing number of competitors or it's possible that email is just more effective.

But the appeal of tax expenditures is compelling in an age of tight federal budgets because they do not appear to cost the government anything.

The release was judicially compelled in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

William's reforms proved so popular that he was compelled, in 1083, to construct a second monastery nearby to accommodate the increasing numbers of monks at Hirsau.