Sentence examples for compelled to shut from inspiring English sources

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The Chicago Tribune recently felt compelled to shut down comment boards on its Web site for all political news stories.

On Sunday morning, however, alarm spread among members when the page seemingly froze and rumors abounded that Facebook had somehow been compelled to shut it down.

All the writers on the show, he added, are compelled "to shut the door and read books on forensic science until your eyeballs fall out".

The operators said they were compelled to shut the ports indefinitely because of what they said was a longshoremen's slowdown that was paralyzing operations.

After the Battle of Savage's Station on June 29, for example, Sneden recorded the overwhelming carnage, where even "the most humane man, with the strongest nerves, breathing for days the poisoned atmosphere of festering wounds, gazing on the most ghastly sights, and hearing the piercing shrieks of the patients while undergoing the operations, is absolutely compelled to shut his eyes".

Lawrence Nagin, the airline's executive vice president and general counsel, said the company felt compelled to shut its operations because it was worried that the union action would strand or delay thousands of passengers and that customers would lose hard-earned confidence in the airline.

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But the Energiewende, as Germans call the energy U-turn, has already produced one certainty: the country's four giant power companies, which were already compelled last year to shut eight of their nuclear plants for good, are among the big losers.

"Only a person who really felt compelled to do it would shut himself up in a room every day," he says.

While the short seller's presentation was lengthy, it presented no evidence to show that Herbalife has crossed a line that would compel regulators to shut it down.

"While the short-seller's presentation was lengthy, it presented no evidence to show that Herbalife has crossed a line that would compel regulators to shut it down," Mr. Loeb wrote, taking a shot at Mr. Ackman.

The legislature, it held, could not compel judges "to shut their eyes to mitigating circumstances and inflict upon them the dubious and unconscionable duty of imposing a preordained sentence of death".

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