25 Verbs to Use for the Word compulsions

Who does not feel within him a compulsion to help the weak?

If the subject refuses to obey, it is the duty of authority to use compulsion.

In the third place compulsion means compulsion by a Government, and Government, at any rate to-day, means class-rule.

And the peasantseven if they escaped the fevercould not escape the compulsion of authority nor the old blind tradition of obedience.

The mind thus suffers total compulsion from without; it has first this and first that to think about, for which it has at the time neither instinct nor liking.

But the context of the passage shows that he only meant to deny any absolute compulsion to write for mere subsistence.

And who ever employed such compulsion as the threat of such an injury as to a senator?

Ireland has dominated the political scene at home, for it is impossible not to connect our new commitments across St. George's Channel with the introduction and passing of the new Military Service Bill establishing compulsion for all men, married or singlealways excepting Ireland.

Each individual will find his happiness in the happiness of his fellows, and no one will try to exercise compulsion on his neighbour.

The surplus flows home in remittances of such abundance that they are steadily raising the cost of living in the Balkans themselves, or, in other words, the standard of material civilization; and sooner or later the immigrant goes the way of his money orders, for home-sickness, if not a mobilization order, exerts its compulsion before half a dozen years are out.

He was afraidas a wild animal is afraidof the compulsion of her eyes.

How like my grandfather it was, to die leaving this compulsion upon me!

For if it needed compulsion to keep him with Lou now, might it not be the same story hereafter?

Further, a little self-control at the right moment may prevent much subsequent compulsion at the hands of others; just as a very small section of a circle close to the centre may correspond to a part near the circumference a hundred times as large.

"A signature, if you can prove compulsion, is not valid.

Any other man would have declared that he had been ordered to do it by his master, and putting forward the compulsion as an excuse would have obtained pardon for it,yes, indeed, he would, when you think of what kind of votes we had passed at that time and what power the soldiers had secured.

Compel them to come in, for remember Christ's ideal was, as Bishop Lightfoot so nobly put it, "the universal compulsion of the souls of men."

If a man would convince himself by experience that this is the case, he need do nothing but remove all compulsion from his fellows, and try to govern them by clearly and forcibly representing to them what is reasonable, right, and fair, though at the same time it may be contrary to their interests.

Because Hugo makes us conscious of that tragedy of temperament, that sterner Necessity of character, that resistless compulsion of circumstance, which is the modern and positive expression for the old Destiny of the Greeks, and which in some expression or other is now an essential element in the highest presentation of human life.

But you spurned itunder compulsion, you say!

The rule formerly insisted upon: "No compulsion in religion," was sacrificed, since experience taught him, that the truth was more easily forced upon men by violence than by threats which would be fulfilled only after the resurrection.

Therefore it will be prudent to anticipate compulsion by self-control.

There would be no chance of "seeking out" anybody and applying benevolent but grim compulsions on the strength of it.

She had been compelled to entertain their guest; and was not at all the woman to bear such compulsion meekly.

Every man, indeed, who is desirous of evading the performance of any of the duties of society, will consider every compulsion as a hardship, by which he is obliged to contribute to the general happiness; but his murmurs will prove nothing but his own folly and ingratitude, and will certainly deserve no regard from the legislative power.

25 Verbs to Use for the Word  compulsions