President Bush, the most powerful political figure in the world, felt compelled on Monday to assert that he, not his advisers, was in control of his administration's policy on Iraq.
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.
The man who brought us such memorable gags as calling a Georgetown graduate student a "slut" for talking about a friend who used birth control pills for cancer treatment, and telling a black caller to take the bone out of his nose, felt compelled on Monday to comment on Syria.
MOSCOW — Russia has been hit with a wave of copycat teenage suicides so pronounced that President Dmitri A. Medvedev felt compelled on Thursday to warn news media outlets against making too much of the deaths, for fear of attracting more imitators.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican felt compelled on Tuesday to deny that Pope Francis had "abolished sin", after a well-known Italian intellectual wrote that he had effectively done so through his words and gestures.
Trump brought this up to argue that the National Enquirer ought to be "respected," and he raised the subject of the tabloid's credibility because he felt compelled on the day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination to defend his decision in May to cite a National Enquirer story linking Ted Cruz's father to then-President John F. Kennedy's assassin.
The chief of the Turkish intelligence agency and four of his former colleagues were compelled to testify on Friday as part of an investigation into the P.K.K., the Kurdish separatist group, the latest round in a power struggle between the country's security forces and its intelligence agency.
But they did feel compelled to respond on Tuesday to the video, which had more than 14 million views as of early Wednesday morning.
As it is, and despite the chairman, Steve Parish, stressing the need "to stick together" en route back from Turf Moor, Palace felt compelled to act on Monday.
Lee Malvo, a defendant in the sniper shootings, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination on Wednesday at a hearing for his co-defendant, John A. Muhammad.
