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"Compulsion" in a Sentence (12 examples)
In truth, a man who renders everyone their due because he fears the gallows, acts under the sway and compulsion of others, and cannot be called just. But a man who does the same from a knowledge of the true reason for laws and their necessity, acts from a firm purpose and of his own accord, and is therefore properly called just.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
He could not control his compulsion to kill.
He was not sure he could fight the compulsion to run.
Love and song know no compulsion.
Out of compulsion, I wrote an apology letter.
His loquaciousness is almost a compulsion.
The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what it needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.
During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
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From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
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