Sentence examples for compelled under from inspiring English sources

So I wasn't compelled, under penalty of perjury, to answer in the affirmative.

It exempted the S.E.C. from being compelled under the Freedom of Information Act to release confidential material it gathered while examining financial firms.

He said the government's case was built largely on "statements compelled under a threat of job loss in a subsequent criminal prosecution," a violation of their constitutional rights.

Previously, state law prohibited releasing information about the identity of particular victims and their whereabouts, but a general list of shelter locations could be compelled under the Open Public Records Act.

The protection afforded to an immunized witness under federal law is that "no testimony or other information compelled under the order (or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or other information) may be used against the witness in any criminal case".

Some critics of the archdiocese had been concerned recently that the church might scrap the settlement in favor of forcing victims to go to trial, in which judges might be compelled under the state charitable immunity law to reduce any jury award to $20,000 per victim.

In January, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court seemed poised to rule that these fees, which critics say are a form of "compelled speech" under the First Amendment, were unconstitutional.

Yet the information that advisers can take with them under the protocol sounds more like what a prisoner of war is compelled to reveal under the Geneva Conventions.

"We are not compelled to assist under a coaching contract.

It remains unclear whether Mr. Risen could be compelled to testify under the proposed shield law, because of wholesale national security exceptions written into the legislation.

If, however, a grand jury is convened in the Clemens case, authorities could subpoena Canseco, and he would be compelled to testify under oath and answer all questions.