Sentence examples for compelling american from inspiring English sources
As Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army colonel, noted in December 2004, American generals and politicians "did not think through the consequences of compelling American soldiers with no knowledge of Arabic or Arab culture to implement intrusive measures inside an Islamic society.
Singer later said he was relieved to have found the compelling "American" actor he had been looking for.
Together they have been perhaps the most compelling American tennis story ever, but we can now at least speculate that the women's game here will continue without them.
Shirley Verrett, the vocally lustrous and dramatically compelling American opera singer who began as a mezzo-soprano and went on to sing soprano roles to international acclaim, died Friday morning at her home in Ann Arbor, Mich.
But some of the most compelling American politicians come from the middle of the spectrum — Theodore Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and, most recently, John McCain — all of whom campaigned on strong, but ideologically indefinable, beliefs.
From the first phrases sung by Kara Shay Thomson, a compelling American soprano with a plush, vibrant, powerful voice, you do not know whether to pity or fear her.
All of this aimed to fulfill Roosevelt's goal of compelling Americans to readjust their attitude to the land that sustained them.
Prosperity, he said, made a reduction of taxes possible, all the while compelling Americans to reach out to those still left behind.
Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shut down much of the United States yesterday, compelling Americans to acknowledge that nameless terrorists can serve up multiple acts of war -- live on national television -- inside the world's most powerful country.
Gigot thinks that it's ultimately like compelling Americans to buy specific cars.
The commerce power, hypothetically, would enable Congress to prohibit the purchase of all meat, fish, and dairy goods, effectively compelling Americans to eat only vegetables.
