Sentence examples for compulsion to take from inspiring English sources

These days, a compulsion to take things is increasingly folded into the broader diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive behavior.

I love my 16 (yes, 16) nieces and nephews, but I have never felt the compulsion to take one home.

But Haddin is no romantic, enjoys playing the game for its own sake and feels no compulsion to take part in a fairy tale.

"Reinforcing this personalised approach will be stronger rights and responsibilities for benefit claimants - new incentives for training but in return more compulsion to take up those opportunities.

KIM WANAMAKER has always wanted to run a bed-and-breakfast — it goes along with her compulsion to take care of people.

At least there was an Apple Store so that I might charge my hungry iPhone, sapped of its strength by my unnatural compulsion to take pictures every 15 minutes or so.

(It makes for an interesting comparison to recent American programs that, to remain market-neutral, simply forced banks to take "help" they didn't always want. The fund doesn't have such means of compulsion to make countries take its money, and the fashion until recently had been to pay off all IMF loans and loudly declare financial "independence").

What's the compulsion to make a film about murder?

Indeed, item 3 investigates the compulsion to start to take drugs, which concerns a persistent desire or failure to cut-down on substance use, whereas item 9 measures the constancy of state, investigating the need to maintain a constant drug effect.

Herbert Muschamp's democratic space is a bank plaza where you take a "vacation from distractions" ["Public Space or Private, a Compulsion to Fill It," Aug. 27].

Seated in her screened-in porch, with a ginger tabby named Zipper perched on her lap, Gilbert concedes that the compulsion to garden took her unawares.