Sentence examples for for compelling him from inspiring English sources

Thompson stopped short of describing those scenes but encouraged the reader to imagine them, while mocking the authorities for compelling him to draw the curtain.

These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.

Paisley avoided a jail term for defying a court order compelling him to disclose the identity of his sources.

By 1953 the Huks were no longer a serious threat, but Magsaysay's radical measures had made many enemies for him within the government, compelling him to resign on February 28, when he charged the Quirino administration with corruption and incompetence.

He warned aides that despite his electoral landslide and congressional majorities, lawmakers would soon resent him for compelling them to cast votes that might infuriate the voters back home.

One of the officers attempted to stop him filming, saying: "If you film anything we will seize your phone to use as evidence, do you understand that?" Oldfield repeatedly asks the officer to specify under which law he can prevent him filming, before the officer appears to reach for the phone to compel him to stop.

He remains on the lookout for things that stimulate — or irritate — him enough to compel him to write for himself.

They could have asked a judge for a search warrant to compel him to give them a DNA swab, but there was no guarantee that the judge would agree.

Stemm says that a love of science, not a desire for profit, compelled him to found Odyssey.

Mr. Ruiz and Ms. Skogland are pivotal figures once more in the second work on the program, Mr. Magno's "Dejame Soñar," the tale of a young man -- the dreamer, or soñador -- whose yearning for New York compels him to abandon his sweet, barefoot Island Fiancée (Natalia Alonso) when he leaves Puerto Rico in the 1950's.

When Henry Hearns moved to Lancaster in the 1960s, the city's reputation for racism compelled him to go door to door, warning neighbors that he was black.