(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.
Perforce
Definition:
(adv.) By force; of necessary; at any rate.
(v. t.) To force; to compel.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are fleeing, perforce, the most awful conditions imaginable: a vicious, endless civil war that sees schools targeted with barrel bombs, communities assaulted with chemical weapons, and whole cities destroyed in a conflict between lawless jihadi fanatics and regime forces fighting for survival.
(2) At the same time it should be made clear that more subtle correlations may exist, other than those herein shown, which perforce cannot be demonstrated or proved because of the restrictive unreliability of the clinical observations.
(3) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
(4) As the large effects were discovered, new associations were perforce of smaller magnitude.
(5) The ethics of animal experimentation are perforce centered on the experimenter.
(6) "This Speaker's actions are this prime minister's responsibility and this Speaker's standards perforce are this prime minister's standards, unless she has the responsibility and the decency to remove this Speaker from this high office," Abbott told parliament.
(7) This analysis suggests that a person in whose tissue an early genetic change occurs during ontogeny will perforce have a markedly higher number of cells in single sectors containing the necessary set of genetic changes.
(8) In this endeavour, traditional herbal medicines must perforce be granted the benefits of modern science and technology to serve future global needs.
(9) Predictions of the consequences of accidental releases of radionuclides have in the past, perforce, relied upon models of environmental transfer.
(10) In the LEW----LBN-F1 combination, the survival of recipients subject perforce to a fatal graft-versus-host reaction was not influenced by the type of venous drainage used (CV-D: 14.1 days; PV-D: 14.8 days).
(11) A cursory appraisal of the ontological status of the unborn in the Judeo-Christian tradition delineates ethical norms that do not perforce correspond with the abovementioned juridical praxis.
(12) The white-doctor: black-patient relationship, perforce the rule, is distinctly problematic in this socio-political climate.
(13) Many indicators have shown considerable progress, but changes are perforce slow.
(14) Cameron must perforce feed his Eurosceptic base and Miliband must occasionally look like he can defeat the Tories.
(15) It is rather obvious that design of therapeutic drugs for specific cardiovascular problems must perforce take such factors into careful consideration.
(16) It is concluded that interventions designed to inhibit the biosynthesis of lung connective tissue do not perforce inhibit the development of cadmium-induced pulmonary changes in the rat.
(17) "This Speaker's actions are this prime minister's responsibility and this Speaker's standards perforce are this prime minister's standards, unless she has the responsibility and the decency to remove this Speaker from this high office," Abbott told the house.
(18) The implication that the measured transverse motion of the cochlear partition could provide sufficient distortion to account for the main features of the histograms has a two-part corollary: that the mechanism which produces severe overall saturation does not add much compressive distortion to the waveform passed radially to IHC and primary fibers, and that the IHC is kept operating chiefly in an approximately linear part of its range, by a prior gain control that is, perforce, cochlear and mechanical.
(19) Changes are perforce slow, and economic pressure represents both a challenge and a constraint.
(20) We conclude from our work and that of others that at high baseline negative appendectomy rates much improvement is possible without causing higher perforation rates, whereas at relatively low negative appendectomy rates, further decreases will, perforce, cause more perforations, a poor trade-off in the opinion of most investigators.