Sentence examples for compelled to devise from inspiring English sources
To make the more costly kind of films he envisions, Afolayan has been compelled to devise a strategy that goes around Alaba. "They're just businesspeople," Afolayan says dismissively.
"No one's impressed by a dinosaur anymore," we are told, which is why the scientists — like the moviemakers — are compelled to devise new creatures.
In his zeal to import mad-dog serial killers to the peaceable kingdom of his native Norway, Jo Nesbo is compelled to devise some pretty outlandish schemes to occupy Inspector Harry Hole, his maverick detective on the Oslo crime squad.
This compels them to devise even more bloodthirsty countermeasures.
In order for this model to be operational, necessity compels us to devise a tax/subsidy scheme to determine the sum of emissions of heat released by metropolises into the urban atmosphere.
But the sanctity and rawness of that ground, where the incision of a ceremonial spade would have been regarded by some as the reopening of an awful wound or the desecration of a cemetery, compelled state officials to devise another kind of ceremony.
Instead, it devises its own punishments for offenders: sometimes they are compelled to apologize, pay restitution, or move to Israel.
Our species is compelled to make art.
"I felt compelled to find out".
Writers are compelled to assault taboos.
