Sentence examples for compelled to avoid the from inspiring English sources

With Strasburg, the Nationals felt compelled to avoid the same fate, and for good reason.

And yet she somehow feels compelled to avoid the limelight, ducking and diving behind trees and other useful props.

While in such cases, the alternatives that we are compelled to avoid remain in principle open to us the offer is not physically imposed on us, it is just bad the same could be said of most literal coercion.

The risk of using an early draft pick on a quarterback -- then having him fail to meet the hype -- makes some team officials queasy, and compels others to avoid the gamble altogether.

Phobias are often defined as a "persistent, abnormal, or irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid the feared stimulus.

Nonetheless, the board felt compelled to review the offer to avoid the appearance that it was not carrying out its duty to shareholders, the executives said.

Like me, he knew the absurdity of his rituals and illogic of his OCD, yet was still compelled to ritualize so as to avoid the irrational fears of consequences.

A subpoena compels a witness to testify unless there are legal grounds to avoid the witness's testimony.

Yahoo was famously compelled to turn informer on human rights activists and Google was forced to flee to Hong Kong in order to avoid the same fate.

But "not feeling" has a cost of its own: not to be emotionally and intellectually compelled to understand and avoid the horror of war also seems horrific in its own way.

The researchers were not able to assess why some doctors might have been compelled to veil or avoid the truth, but "I don't believe doctors set out to be dishonest or have some kind of malicious or nefarious intent," said Dr. Lisa I. Iezzoni, the study's lead author and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who is director of the Mongan Institute.