Sentence examples for compelling him from inspiring English sources

For example, commanders have always attempted to outflank or encircle the enemy, thus dividing his forces and compelling him to face in two directions at once.

Under a motion by the government, Federal District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr., who is hearing the current case, granted Mr. Glisan immunity, compelling him to testify.

Thompson stopped short of describing those scenes but encouraged the reader to imagine them, while mocking the authorities for compelling him to draw the curtain.

The Investigator became trapped in the ice of Mercy Bay just north of Banks Island, compelling him to abandon the ship, but his party was rescued by two ships at nearby Melville Island.

These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.

Even Messel's education at Hawtreys, a private school of "Dickensian horror," served a purpose, he later claimed, by compelling him to take refuge in a world of his own making.

With the possibilities created by new technology, architecture has recently become more compelling for him.

"The scent and allure of Washington was very compelling to him," said Gordon Davis, a former New York City parks commissioner and the founding chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center who is a friend of Mr. Johnson.

In "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" Mr. Egan has set his lens too close to his subject to focus on what was most troubling, and most compelling, about him.

Samantha is audible but invisible, so Phoenix's physical responses speak for both of them, and Jonze has said he cast Phoenix because he needed someone as compelling as him to make that work.

Yes There's an argument blowing in the gusty winds around Royal Birkdale this week that the absence of Tiger Woods is actually a good thing for the game, that this week's Open Championship is more compelling without him in the field.