His illness compelled him to give up his studies.
As employers find retroactive options in other companies, they feel compelled to follow suit.
He was compelled to give the signal for the infernal work to proceed.
Fate is not a transaction. When we come to the world, no one compelled, and no one wants to quit.
In a case in Tianjin in 1870 alone, the Western powers compelled the Qing government to execute 20 people and exile 25.
On the pretext of these religious cases the Western powers imposed military and political pressure on the Chinese government. They put forward various unreasonable demands, compelled the Chinese government to pay indemnities, and arrested and executed innocent people.
Having "not enough money" to spend is but a small matter. What is more troubling is having no money to meet daily expenses. Imagine a family that is short on food and the basic necessities, and the breadwinner is compelled to turn to loan sharks for money.
These goods were compelled restitution.
compelled forcibly by an outside agency.
Edmund felt compelled to speak, and he supplemented his mother's story.
I was sick exceedingly, and dizzy and faint; and thus compelled perforce to accept lodgings under his roof.
"if it is dishonoured he will compensate the holder or any indorser who is compelled to pay it, provided that the requisite proceedings on dishonour are duly taken;"
The Turhots were a major Mongolian tribe who were compelled to migrate westward towards the end of the Ming Dynasty under continual attacks by the Zhungaer tribe. They then settled in the lower reaches of the Volga in Russia.
a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap).
Brunel was compelled to admit failure.
There was no appeal against Robert's opinion, therefore his sister was compelled to yield.
One day while visiting the Bingleys in the rain, Jane comes down with a bad cold and is compelled to stay at Netherfield Park.
then to conceal the mass of earth and rubbish I dug up, I was compelled to break through a staircase, and throw the fruits of my labor into the hollow part of it;
forced or compelled.
The lash of public opinion compelled him to resign.
Labour is more abundant than goods, and the individual is compelled to work long hours for little pay.
If a general Balkan war breaks out, t feel compelled to intervene on behalf of the Albanian Muslims. And if the Turks jump in, conceivably Russian nationalists could then openly throw their weight behind the Serbs.
One feels compelled to oblige a lady.
The lack of cold - storage steamer have compelled us to wait and delivery of the goods have to be postponed .
Heathcliff was dangerously sick: and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his pillow: I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn't wit to guess that I was compelled to do it.
The hijackers intimidated( compelled forced) us to fly to.
After opening harbor, Korea adopted suzerain Qing dynasty's policy called "To rely on minorities is to overwhelm minorities", and opening the door walked from being compelled to being on one's owninitiative.
The younger ladies of the House of Gauat were also compelled into submission.
I was compelled to follow her.
An annual festival was held in May, called Delphinia, to commemorate the tribute of seven boys and seven girls, whom Athens had been compelled in remote times to send every year to Crete to be offered as sacrifices to the Minotaur.
The delay of the steamer have compelled postponement of delivery .
Although the man in front of him is not beautiful, he naturally has a temperament that can not be compelled to look at.
He was compelled to think this thought, or else there would not be any use to strive, and he would have lain down and died.
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