Sentence examples for compelled to claim from inspiring English sources

It was around that time that the police made a practice of keeping secret a few facts about a crime, as a way of weeding out people who felt compelled to claim that they had done something they had not.

Last January, saying he had found God and felt compelled to confess, Mr. Reyes claimed that he alone had raped the jogger.

In 971, however, his comparatively small army was defeated by a Byzantine force under the emperor John I Tzimisces, and Svyatoslav was compelled to abandon his claim to Balkan territory.

I am reminded of whole swaths of this country where historical fiction compels Americans to claim the Civil War was about states' rights, minus the "right to own people" part.

When Telipinus sought to establish defensible frontiers, he was forced to conclude a treaty with a king of Kizzuwadna named Isputakhsus and was also compelled to renounce his claims on the neighbouring country of Arzawa.

UN war crimes prosecutors in The Hague today called for the British supermodel Naomi Campbell to be compelled to testify over claims that she was given "blood diamonds" by Liberia's former president Charles Taylor.

The company seemed quite flabbergasted by Ellison's attacks, yet felt compelled to answer his claims all the same.

Most companies would feel compelled to settle such claims rather than endure the expense and difficulty of defending allegations about long-ago behavior.

In just outing McEvilley as a philosophical skeptic, I feel compelled to back up my claim by citing his 1988 Artforum essay "Emphyrrical Thinking (and Why Kant Can't)".

Davis gives long personal histories of the principal players in his history, but fails to explain the reason they are important, and is compelled to repeat every positive claim made about Sesame Street.

And a conservative radio host was compelled to correct her when she claimed that she had won two counties in a 2008 race against Senator Joe Biden.