'impels' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to push or drive someone to do something. For example: The pressure from her parents impels her to get perfect grades.
Mr Bush was to be painted as Mr Reagan's heir, determined to hand the American people back "their money", rather than as the candidate of big business.This record suggests that Mr Bush will try to reform business practices only as far as Mr Rove impels him.
Now that the cold war no longer impels America and Russia to prop up unrepentant despots, Africa's rulers like to be seen to be legitimate.
They are certainly still smiling, but it may be hysteria not happiness that impels them.PERCY MISTRYOxfordSIR How can your leader ("Hopeless Africa", May 13th) characterise a continent of 54 countries as hopeless?
However, the empirical data already show how Facebook discussion groups for MOOCs speedily evolve into face-to-face groups for those living nearby, the same instinct being at work that impels the best students to aspire to high-end institutions where personal contact is possible, both for educational and social advantages.
First, to judge from the scenes of some Gazans handing out celebratory sweets and cartoons on social media glorifying the bloodletting, the lust for butchery that impels jihadists elsewhere is gripping Palestinians.
ROSS DOUTHAT thinks liberals should object less strenuously to the Hobby Lobby decision because religion often impels corporations to do things that liberals would consider morally praiseworthy.
The vested interests that own and control the bourses are hard to satisfy; regulation of markets that operate across borders is inevitably awkward, since it has long been jealously guarded at national level; old-fashioned protectionism impels many governments to preserve "their" stock exchanges.
This is northern Greece, where a Muslim community of at least 100,000 was allowed, under the 1923 Lausanne treaty, to retain cultural autonomy, including widespread jurisdiction over family matters for local muftis.Nothing stops a Greek Muslim from going to the state courts, but communal pressure impels most people to settle family affairs through the muftis.
Several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but everyone understands what is meant, when it is said that instinct impels the cuckoo to migrate and to lay its eggs in other birds' nests.
Nostalgia impels him to drive through the young immigrant's neighbourhood on his way to his factory and to start a relationship with her that ends in tragedy.
Thus, enhanced strength of the easterly trade winds over low latitudes of the Atlantic north and south of the Equator impels more water toward the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, producing a stronger flow and greater warmth in the Gulf Stream approximately six months later.
