"These are manifestations of increasing concern about well-being and the ethic that if you are going to use animals, there should be a compelling reason," said Wayne Pacelle, the chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.
"They've been so clear and focused that in order for them to go into other markets, there had better be a really compelling reason," said Ross T. Nussbaum, a senior analyst at UBS. "For them to take on the risk, the investment returns have to be exceptional".
He did tell a couple of self-protective stories, though for no compelling reason: He said his assignment as an Army journalist came as a complete surprise; friends said he'd spent months figuring the surest shot at such a job.
"If I break with my district, I better have an awfully compelling reason," he said.
"We release it when we believe there is a compelling reason," he said.
"In explanation of this relatively modest change of standard, the commission gave a sensible, although not necessarily compelling, reason," he said.
Michaelson chose a Division II college for one compelling reason: he said no Division I teams pursued him except Connecticut, and no scholarship was offered there.
"Our policy in general is not to use a picture with a body, a dead person — unless there is a very compelling reason," Schamberry said.
And if we follow Dennett (1976) in thinking that this kind of evidence is relevant for determining whether dream sensations and emotions are real instances of their kind, then this is a compelling reason for saying that dreams are, after all, experiences, in the sense of involving the phenomenology of seeing, feeling, etc during sleep.
"If this is truly a national emergency, then the Federal Acquisition Regulation has a provision where they can sole source to companies for urgent and compelling reasons," Anderson said.
Reports of children dying of complications from the flu and pneumonia are the most compelling reasons, doctors said, for getting the shots.
