Sentence examples for compulsion to have from inspiring English sources

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There's no compulsion to have a passport.

Even while sedated, the drone's compulsion to have a good time is infectious.

"What is this compulsion to have people over to your house and serve them food and talk to them?" he asks her.

He also suffers from a rare and bewildering condition called apotemnophilia, the compulsion to have a perfectly healthy limb amputated — in his case, the right leg, at mid-thigh.

The netsuke reflect husband and wife's central, if unacknowledged, conflict — her devotion to a precise and pristine aesthetic, to perfect views and masterly carvings, versus his compulsion to have annihilating sex with people whose lives have already carved them into various distressing shapes.

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Lavery does little to explain Ralph's compulsion, except to have him reveal, during one of his unbearably intense monologues, that his father beat him when he was a child.

Still, you really have to wonder if it's purely a lack of compulsion to give a shit that has resulted in an increase of over 200percentt in something like chlamydia.

Planned obsolescence and a constant compulsion to upgrade have warped our sense of time and even the speed of consumer niche-defined generations".

"It's a compulsion people feel to have parts of their body surgically amputated.

"It's your turn": in that phrase, there's a glimpse of a particularly cruel means of compulsion that seems to have been used on the boys he is accused of sexually abusing or raping.

Apple also hasn't indicated whether it was carrying out Mr. Jobs's wishes, but the decision seems consistent with his "compulsion for Apple to have end-to-end control of every product that it made," as Walter Isaacson put it in his book "Steve Jobs".

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