Sentence examples similar to was compelled to shoot from inspiring English sources
The police "were compelled to shoot tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd".
The police chief said Awami supporters were protesting the grenade attack while backers of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party were staging a counterdemonstration. "We were compelled to shoot as the situation went beyond control," he said, but he gave no details.
Israel, too, has made clear its irritation with the American outreach to Arabs, while Yasir Arafat has been compelled to shoot -- and kill -- Palestinian demonstrators to demonstrate his fealty to Washington.
Working in both collage and photography, Jureller is compelled to shoot strangers whose actions mimic the feelings and situations of her personal memories.
Meanwhile, WND has made the mistakes -- some might call them malicious falsehoods -- of treating an April Fool's story as real, hyping a bogus "Kenyan birth certificate" for Barack Obama, and making a claim about Obama that was so bogus even fellow birthers were compelled to shoot it down, among many other mistakes.
You are compelled to take the waters in a convertible.
The bishop Orellana was not shot, but was compelled to give spiritual assistance to those convicted and to witness the execution.
He succeeded each time in delivering the message, although on each occasion his horse was shot and he was compelled to finish the journey on foot.
In January 1747 he was compelled to resign.
I was compelled to wage combat.
