485 examples of compulsions in sentences
Everything is done under a sense of compulsion, and the air is lurid with trials and lamentations and woe.
For if it needed compulsion to keep him with Lou now, might it not be the same story hereafter?
And Napoleon, under compulsion of the mob, ascended the tumbril; and Abbé Sieyès and Bishop Talleyrand rode at his side, administering spiritual consolation.
And the peasantseven if they escaped the fevercould not escape the compulsion of authority nor the old blind tradition of obedience.
Therefore he purchased the vessel, and ran it at the disposition of the thieves, and subsequently under compulsion in the secret service of Russia, as I have already described to you.
Louis was no warrior, although under compulsion he showed possibilities of becoming an able general.
In the second line he placed the Carthaginians, Africans, and a legion of Macedonians; then, leaving a moderate interval, he formed a reserve of Italian troops, consisting principally of Bruttians, more of whom had followed him on his departure from Italy by compulsion and necessity than by choice.
At this time and even earlier Sextus and Caesar had broken out into war; for since they had come to an agreement not of their own free will or choice but under compulsion, they did not abide by it any time at all, so to speak, but broke the truce at once and stood opposed.
He did not think it proper for a commander to do anything against his will under compulsion from the soldiers, because they would be sure, if he did, to want to get the advantage of him again in some other matter.
The unfortunates suffer from compulsions and obsessions and lack inhibitions.
Among these types are included subjects of obsessions and compulsions who are dull and apathetic, cannot learn or maintain inhibitions, and so, without initiative, evolve into moral and intellectual degenerates, liable to epilepsy and the most remarkable sex aberrations.
She made that sign to my thinking only on compulsion because she could not express herself except in that way.
Madariaga, who seems to have had no desire of unnecessary mischief, invited them (June 9) to send an officer, who should take a view of his forces, that they might be convinced of the vanity of resistance, and do that, without compulsion, which he was, upon refusal, prepared to enfcrce.
What, at last, is the difference between him that is taxed, by compulsion, without representation, and him that is represented, by compulsion, in order to be taxed?
No doubt intense will-power can evolve certain external results, but like all other methods of compulsion it lacks the permanency of natural growth.
In this compulsion he had no cause to complain; a foreigner meddling with the politics of the country in which he was only accidentally resident, could expect no deferential consideration from the government.
The compulsion of hunger, or the request of friends, was the excuse for the printing of sorry books in Pope's time; and it has not become obsolete yet.
Craddock set his teeth, and vowed that if he had once been a villain from choice he would, at least, never be one by compulsion.
These points of consistency are beyond my province, and I care not in the least by what compulsion you may have been dragged away, so as you are but carried in the right direction.
But in his case there were other compulsions.
There would be no chance of "seeking out" anybody and applying benevolent but grim compulsions on the strength of it.
In war she could do too little, in peace she did too much, under the material compulsions which controlled the world.
Whether from rebellion against the irking monotony of its inherited creeds or from compulsions generated by its own complexities, each age develops its code of convenient illusions which minimize cerebration in dilemmas of conduct by postulating an unequivocal cleavage between the current right and the current wrong.
The girl should be perfectly free to choose between them; she should be influenced by no compulsions and no stratagems of his; was he not "an officer and a gentleman"? "By Jove!
Anarchy proper involves the complete emancipation of every individual from all restraints and compulsions; it involves a social condition wherein absolutely no authority is imposed upon any individual, where no requirement of any kind is made against the will of any memberman, woman, or child; where everything is left to individual initiation.