Sentence examples for compelled on from inspiring English sources

The iPhone maker has repeatedly argued that private companies can't be compelled on a whim to assist authorities without limits.

"I did this because we're compelled on this issue to do what is right on the substance," Mr. Spitzer said.

So it came as a surprise, to say the least, when the BBC was compelled on Friday to apologize for Federer's "bad language".

While still a child, he was compelled on orders from his father to make daily rounds of the European consuls residing in Egypt in order to overcome his shyness and improve his French.

The latter has not been compelled, on penalty of fine and imprisonment, to disclose, under oath, facts which have furnished a clue to the offense with which he is charged.

The cries of concern have reached such a crescendo that Mr. Shamir felt compelled on Tuesday to explain that the Israeli Government was not pressing the United States to go to war.

What, if not forced, is work that one is compelled to take on pain of sanctions, including starvation?

But the music is terrific and the performances compelling on this surprisingly exciting and excellently engineered recording.

Robbins was known for catching adolescence in his choreography; to watch adolescents dance his choreography is compelling on many levels.

But though these squash were compelling on their own, their performance in a modest pie was less convincing — like Javier Bardem guest starring on "Two and a Half Men".

Its central conceit of the Hoffmann character as a Kafka figure was underdeveloped and unnecessary; Hoffmann, the über-Romantic, is compelling on his own terms.