Sentence examples for impelled to explain from inspiring English sources

Confronted with the bartender, he felt impelled to explain his presence.

I feel impelled to explain several points in Dennis McDougal's article "John Logan's Solo Show" [Jan . 9]

That raw fact impelled Mr. Obama to explain to them personally why he had ordered the Guantánamo Bay prison to be closed within a year and why he suspended military trials until his administration figured out how to prosecute the remaining terrorism suspects.

He went on to explain that he had believed in the doctrine of necessity—"that is, that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power over which the mind itself has no control".

For that defence to apply, the judge explained: "Her will must have been overborne in the sense that she was impelled to commit the offence because she truly believed that she had no real choice but to do so".

She's impelled to codify.

Indeed, neither side seems impelled to try very hard.

He felt impelled to drive down to W. Phila.

Even the vice-president was impelled to respond.

Some felt impelled to apologise to the rest of us.

Now, today, I feel impelled to do so.