(v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
(v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
(v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
(v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
(v. t.) To call forth; to summon.
(v. i.) To make one yield or submit.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(2) This provides a compelling argument that the protein kinase function of p37mos is an intrinsic property of the protein.
(3) Compelling evidence of the transference in this case occurred in the ninth month of treatment when the therapist told the child that she would be going on vacation.
(4) "We continue to believe that our final proposal was compelling and represented full value for AstraZeneca based on the information that was available to us," said the British-born executive.
(5) These advances will compel hospitals to plan for their funding and implementation.
(6) Certainly the affidavit against Ferdaus paints a compelling picture of a man hellbent on waging jihad in America and eager to take the guns and explosives eventually supplied to him by the undercover FBI agents.
(7) The Hollande team maintained that all topics were on the table and also held open the prospect that France could refuse to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact compelling debt and deficit reduction in the eurozone unless eurobonds were recognised as a possible tool.
(8) As a self-described rationalist, she felt compelled to act.
(9) Brown makes policy statements all the time, and we know exactly what he's said about social justice etc - but he has never been able to give the public a compelling answer to this question.
(10) The evidence has long been compelling that the primary fuel of what the US calls terrorism are the very policies of aggression justified in the name of stopping terrorism .
(11) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(12) The symbolism and the politics of the law are far more troubling and far more toxic than the actual substance of what the law will do itself.” That symbolism compelled store owners in Indianapolis to put up signs that say: “Instead of hate, we proudly serve everyone,” “This Hoosier still opposes the anti-LGBT license to discriminate,” and “Open for service!
(13) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
(14) Pickles said he would also be making an order under the Local Government Act 2000 to compel Rotherham council to hold all-out elections in 2016 and every fourth year thereafter.
(15) In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed.
(16) Because we're a species of storytellers, we find movie-plot threats uniquely compelling .
(17) These results were perceived as scientifically compelling as well as clinically relevant.
(18) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
(19) Although findings in animals are compelling, observations in humans are less clear.
(20) His videos make for compelling first-person testimony.
Coppel
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Cupel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, hybridization studies were conducted using two oligodeoxy-nucleotides which were constructed based on the sequence of a cDNA clone which encoded part of a similar high-molecular-weight P. falciparum protein [Coppel et al., Mol.
(2) 159, 1686-1704] and in the ring-infected erythrocyte surface antigen [Coppel, R.L.
(3) Steve Coppell should take some credit for that.” The club’s former manager, beanie hat pulled down to keep him as incognito as possible, was in with the supporters from south London here and he would have purred in satisfaction at that opener, lifted as it was straight from the script of Villa Park and a celebrated set-piece dissection of the last truly great Liverpool side.
(4) United, then under Sir Alex Ferguson, prevailed in a replay 26 years ago against Steve Coppell’s team who included Pardew in their midfield.
(5) Using Coppel's Self-Efficacy Scale (SES), which is based on Bandura's conceptualization of self-efficacy, the research also examined the effect of gender, race, socioeconomic status, and self-reported religiosity on self-efficacy.
(6) Sequences from the Camp and FCR3 strains are very close and are also nearly identical to the partial cDNA sequence of the acidic basic repeated antigen (ABRA) protein from the FC27 strain (Stahl, H.D., Bianco, A.E., Crewther, R.F., Anders, R.F., Kyne, A.P., Coppel, R. L., Mitchell, G.F., Kemp, D.J., and Brown, G.V.
(7) Scott Sinclair rescues Aston Villa in 5-3 thriller against Notts County Read more Pardew will have shared that anxiety having been in the previous Palace team to confront the Shrews, in 1989, when Steve Coppell’s side were actually on the charge to the top flight but, true to form, still sunk without trace at Gay Meadow.
(8) Notification [triggering] article 50 will not occur before the end of 2016,” Coppel told the court.
(9) "For me I can only think there was a personal confrontation after the game as Martin, in his interviews after the game, looked calm, collected and inspired for the challenge ahead," Coppell told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek.
(10) The decision to relieve O'Neill of his duties with only seven games remaining has also been questioned by Coppell.
(11) The former England international Steve Coppell believes the sacking of Martin O'Neill by Sunderland on Saturday is a sad indictment of foreign ownership of Premier League clubs.
(12) Coppell was saying Gylfi wasn’t quick enough to be a midfielder.
(13) The defendant resisting the actions is the secretary of state for exiting the EU, David Davis, who is represented by the attorney general, Jeremy Wright QC, James Eadie QC and Jason Coppel QC.
(14) Their sole appearance in the final came in 1990, when Pardew was an industrious component of Steve Coppell’s midfield and scored the winner against Liverpool in the semi-final before United won the final, again at the second attempt.
(15) Confirming that ministers are not aiming to push the exit button until next year at the earliest, Jason Coppel QC, for the government, conceded that there was nonetheless “some urgency” to the issue.
(16) When we got there Steve Coppell was trying to turn him into a centre-half,” says Dadi Rafnsson, now director of coaching at Breidablik’s academy.
(17) The former Crystal Palace and Reading manager Coppell does not believe it was the loss to United that cost O'Neill his job and reckons the make-up of ownership in the Premier League has an impact on the lifespan of a top-flight manager.
(18) Alan Pardew performed his best Steve Coppell impression on the final whistle here, turning on his heels in the technical area and darting down the tunnel to leave the public celebrations for his players out on the pitch.