Sentence examples for were compelled by from inspiring English sources

Citizens of the free states were compelled by the new law to help catch runaways from the slave states.

Analysts said the defections were compelled by the taboo in Yemeni tribal culture against killing innocent, unarmed civilians.

He dismisses the idea that they were compelled by foreign policy, but rather by rage, a loss of identity and getting "caught between no cultures".

He did well in the minors, but the Dodgers had no room for him and were compelled by baseball rules to offer him to other teams.

At the same time, Mr. Lay was engaged in a series of huge sales of his Enron shares, which financial records show were compelled by his need to pay off bank loans.

At one point we see Lorna trying to combat her condition by reading poetry: the irony is that she chooses verses from Christopher Reid's A Scattering, which were compelled by his wife's death.

She is compelled by her own logic.

"We're compelled by complexity," Mr Kyffin says.

So Jed is compelled by the destinations of his friends.

And voters appear to be compelled by Mrs. Edwards's battle.

For while we may be compelled by biology, we are freed by consciousness.