Sentence examples for compulsion has been from inspiring English sources

But the immense weight of compulsion has been lifted.

Howard Rheingold offers an abstract on what will be addressed in his UC Berkeley Regents Lecture: "My career-long compulsion has been to take new media to their limits.

Whether and how weakness of will can be distinguished from compulsion has been a subject of much debate in the literature: see Gary Watson's classic paper on the subject (1977) and also Audi 1979, Mele 1987, ch. 2, Buss 1997, Tenenbaum 1999, Wallace 1999, Kennett 2001, ch.

This is a fairly undeveloped field altogether". Lord Krebs argued: "It's not cost-free to try something that, according to expert views, is likely to fail". As the discussion developed, Mr Letwin expanded on the theme by questioning how effective government regulation and compulsion had been in altering people's behaviour.

This resulted in a heightened ability to regulate compulsive behavior, whereas prior to MBCT, compulsions had been perceived as rather uncontrollable.

The symmetry obsessions and ordering and repeating compulsions have been reported to be associated and constitute a single dimension in the majority of studies performed in adults.

Nevertheless, for my mental health and creative compulsion, sewing has been indispensable.

It is a compulsion that has been the motivating force behind his writing, generating works of genius and patchy disappointments alike.

'You lose friends.' A compulsion which has been a driving force and not without its sacrifices but also one, which, I suspect, she would be lost without.

If that is the compulsion he has been resisting all season he did remarkably well to have enough concentration left over for the football, never mind win player of the year awards.

White calls himself a "sex-addict" who has "never failed to act on my erotic impulses", and it is integral to his personality as a writer that the compulsion to tell has been as strong, in its way, as the compulsion to act.