Sentence examples for compelled to prove from inspiring English sources

They had wanted to see the American, and I think Sergei had felt compelled to prove that he really did have one.

Some analysts predict that new leaders may feel compelled to prove their nationalist credentials by engaging in provocative actions that could worsen tensions with South Korea and Japan and their main ally, the United States.

Those who have not -- and most lawmakers have not -- invariably find him condescending, like the kid who knows he is the smartest boy in the class and feels compelled to prove it.

Before long Clare is compelled to prove David wrong about her, and Hadley makes it clear that the deviousness with which Clare pulls apart and remakes her life is evidence, above all, that she is a voracious reader.

European leaders will now feel compelled to prove their resolve, without so isolating and alienating Austria that it only strengthens the position of Jorg Haider, the far-right populist whom European leaders hoped to exclude from their ranks.

As a scientist with a different cultural identity, Bounceur also felt compelled to prove himself more in the laboratory.

Spouses can't be compelled to testify, but there's no law against volunteering to do so, and the Epsteins proved quite eager to trade allegations.

But he might have been better off leaving it to aides, so he did not end up going mano a mano with his nemesis John McCain on an appointment he hasn't even made (though now Obama might feel compelled to, just to prove that he can't be pushed around), and so he could focus on fiscal cliff bipartisanship.

Because of the narrow window for compensation in such matters, Mr. Thompson was compelled to allege and prove that the prosecutor had failed to properly train his assistants.

Her utopian views compelled her to prove the truth of Stephen Jay Gould's "Great Asymmetry" response to 9/11: "Every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness".

Another Fallen Hero To the Sports Editor: Re "A Nation Reels as a Star Runner Is Charged in Girlfriend's Death," Feb. 15: Oscar Pistorius fought battles with his physical imperfections and also with a system that compelled him to prove that having no legs below the knees had not somehow provided him an unfair edge.