Sentence examples for were compelled to act from inspiring English sources

Last fall, buyers were compelled to act by the pending expiration of an $8,000 tax credit.

George Hoffman, a spokesman for the town, said town officials were compelled to act after a state building inspector told them that the building did not meet state public-assembly code requirements.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an umbrella group for 13 aid charities, launched its appeal yesterday saying the devastation in Gaza was "so huge British aid agencies were compelled to act".

American officials and their European allies said they were compelled to act amid a relentless campaign of intimidation in Belarus against government opponents that has continued since the police violently dispersed a large protest against Mr. Lukashenko's accession to a fourth term in last year's elections.

While such threats are hardly novel, the authorities said that the information that they received from an informant in the county jail here about a gang plot to kill Mr. Booker was so specific that they were compelled to act on them.

"If Israel were compelled to act alone against Iran's nuclear programme, it too would be reacting as well as pre-empting, since Iran has effectively declared war against the Jewish state and its people," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

The lawyers were prepared to argue that she had been compelled to act by the belief that the American and British governments were acting outside international law.

But Congress cannot be compelled to act, as it proves yearly.

Perhaps the crisis needs to become deeper before our leaders are compelled to act.

On paper, at least, this preserves the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, because the government will not be compelled to act.

Who were the men (or women) qualified to serve on these juries, and how could they be compelled to act?