Sentence examples for compulsion to act from inspiring English sources
Some of them, such as a moral compulsion to act because children are dying, are unlikely to convince those who believe strikes would only make it worse.
By the same token, American-owned businesses operating abroad feel a similar compulsion to act as good citizens in their host countries.
In his darkest moments he fails to see the point of intensive-care units, where doctors often seem to pursue extreme methods, practically torturing patients, simply out of the compulsion to act.
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.
Another aspect important for the paper is whether as Waltz (1979) suggests international compulsion to act in an anarchistic international system does not relate to internal structures, affairs and politics of individual states, but follow quasi-deterministic mechanisms.
Niemann and Schmitter (2009: 57) argue that through a process of functional spill-over, elites act as agents which sell the necessity, urgency and compulsion to act through highlighting issue salience.
Under these circumstances, the Austrian authorities were not only right to act, they were almost under a compulsion to do so.
It is internal direction, not external compulsion that induces us to act either morally or immorally.
Jung referred to the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, stating that if Jekyll (the conscious personality) fails to identify the shadow, it will become its slave -- subject to compulsions it cannot understand, its capacity to act paralyzed.
