Sentence examples for compulsions for from inspiring English sources

He finds that these people would not get rid of their compulsions for the world.

She had been closeted with a genius and his compulsions for twenty years, and now, rather than padlock herself in with him, she looked out the little window, and saw another life.

There had been much talk, in the long runup to the speech, about how Obama could seize the occasion to clearly articulate or delineate his vision of the conditions and compulsions for U.S. military intervention — something that could stand as an Obama Doctrine.

There are self-help books written for seemingly every aberration of human experience: for alcoholics and opiate abusers; for widows, rape victims, gambling addicts, and anorexics; for the parents of children with disabilities; for sufferers of acne and shopping compulsions; for cancer survivors, asexuals, and people who just aren't that happy and don't know why.

In reality, OCD is diagnosed when an individual experiences obsessions and compulsions for a significant amount of time each day (usually more than an hour), in a way that interferes with his or her life.

Currently he leads the Special Interest Group on Addiction and Recovery for the San Gabriel Valley Psychological Association, and is the resident expert on Addiction and compulsions for GoodTherapy.com.com

This is the compulsion for more killing".

The scheme falls short of compulsion for workers since they can opt out.

Iannotti credits her father, a lifelong gardener, with passing along "an obsessive compulsion for heirloom vegetables".

The compulsion for a three-bird roast has hit the high-street, too.

For an official in a starchy bureaucracy, Neville has a surprising compulsion for candor.