How To Use Compulsion In A Sentence
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Despite the lack of legal compulsion, many companies already ban smoking.
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Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
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They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic.
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Penman said she was in favour of increasing awareness of the importance of languages, but concerned about the removal of compulsion.
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The state's only function is as an apparatus of coercion and compulsion.
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Marziya knows with money you get sweets toys, but here she is aware that what she gives the Umbrella lady will not get her anything in return..but a sweet smile .. and this is the lesson I teach Marziya , giving charity without compulsion, I teach Marziya along with photography the meaning of humility...
Archive 2009-08-01
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I did have the compulsion, though to aim the camera towards the side of the room where the beds were.
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I don't really have any weird compulsions, though.
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All this compulsion will achieve is to force people to actively abstain or face a fine.
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On active participation by the population in arts and sport: I' m in favour of experimentation but not compulsion.
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The strangest thing about this book is how compelling it is, and the compulsion of it is not simply that of the compulsion to rubberneck at the scene of a gruesome accident.
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The Confederate policies of impressments sometimes helped manufacturers convince Federal authorities that their production for the Confederate government had been based upon compulsion.
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As to the second kind of adjuration, which is by compulsion, we may lawfully use it for some purposes, and not for others.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Patients may complain of an inability to sit or stand still, or a compulsion to pace or cross and uncross their legs.
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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He felt an inner compulsion to write.
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But whether you are going to do it by compulsion of circumstances or by conviction has to be decided.
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Health Culture opposes as needless and wasteful of life those research activities known as vivisection, also as contrary to human interest the use of drugs, serums, vaccines and chemicals as medicines or preventives of disease by legal compulsion.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
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Recovery was permitted only in cases in which money was exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment was made under a mistake of fact of under compulsion of some kind.
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Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
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There is an element of compulsion in the new scheme for the unemployed.
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Some predict that, at that point, the government will be forced to introduce an element of compulsion.
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The digital panopticon is founded not on compulsion but on the willing surrender of privacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this knowledge is not sufficient to enable them to stop the obsessions and compulsions.
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Parents and children are acutely vulnerable under circumstances of compulsion and emergency which are regular occurrences in residential admissions.
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The compulsion to write - to fill up a blank page as an assertion of identity and ego - often produced volumes of personal jottings: page upon page of astounding outpouring and emotional release.
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This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
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One thing that may intensify this focus is the vast resources on the Internet available to feed or fuel other addictions or compulsions.
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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Such causelessness would bind the Soul under an even sterner compulsion, no longer master of itself, but at the mercy of movements apart from will and cause.
The Six Enneads.
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The legal system is based on compulsion.
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For example, on pensions policy, the most often-raised points are about the earnings link, about voluntarism versus compulsion, and safeguards for schemes' members.
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The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
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Graham was himself a formidable "scrutinizer"; and, famously, a "strong resenter," with intermittent compulsion to test the indulgence of his friends.
Our Man on Capri
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He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
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But the beneficiary is the subject of compulsion as well.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Our Rights are Threatened by All These New Rights
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It is an irresistible compulsion, driven by unshakeable guilt and the constant need for endorsement.
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Iran routinely harasses the Baha'is, Zoroastrians and occasionally Jews, and now we have a case of Christian pastor charged with apostasy which goes against the very grain of Islam: "There shall not be any compulsion in matters of faith" Quran 2:256.
Mike Ghouse: Citizenship, Islam And America
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Whether struggling with drugs, alcohol, or some other compulsion, this series will help people discover that they were born to be free.
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Later, when it's less needed, it often lingers as a compulsion.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The ‘act of state doctrine’, the doctrine of ‘foreign governmental compulsion’, and the principle of comity all serve to limit the extraterritorial application of the law.
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So long as the possibility remained that nothing would happen they felt no compulsion to educate themselves.
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The pope's intentions in discussing "holy war" were presumably good -- he approvingly quoted an early Qu'ranic "surah" (chapter), which says "there is no compulsion in religion" -- and he was right to raise the issue of how to confront and combat the religious extremism that gives rise to terror and violence.
The Pope's 'Holy War'
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The bad was the pervasive and inevitable corruption of morals and manners that accompanied such a compulsion for the luxurious.
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Spot on where the distinction between a new ‘right’ and a compulsion is concerned.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Our Rights are Threatened by All These New Rights
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I refuse to act under compulsion, ie because I am forced to.
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Leith felt an overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth.
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It seems to me that toward the end of things, I develop this compulsion to become more thorough.
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Rachel's obsessive compulsions are the symptoms of a depressed woman struggling to gain some control over herself and her world.
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Our real problem is not that we have addictions or compulsions.
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There is an element of compulsion in the new scheme for the unemployed.
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The compulsion is just that, an involuntary urge which has nothing to do with choice: a deep, sometimes desperate need to order the universe, usually as an anxiety reaction, which sometimes comes to rule the person's life.
Counting Your Way to Safety
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How did he address the compulsion in the interim?
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Socialism, which require, on one hand, that we lay the foundation for the Socialist organization of emulation, and, on the other hand, _require the use of compulsion so that the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat should not be weakened by the practice of a too mild proletarian government_.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance.
Chapter 26
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But when the institution - be it a university or a trade union - makes the point that everyone benefits from their service offer, they are howled down with charges of coercion and compulsion.
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But Faust cannot turn away from the awful figure of his lost love, and his compulsion is the sign that he has not abandoned his inspiration.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology
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There are two plausible reasons why voter turnout is down, neither of which would be ‘cured’ by compulsion.
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Crane apparently has a propensity for rape and sexual exhibitionism but does not experience irresistible compulsions or an absolute volitional impairment.
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The property is not seized, but has to be handed over under compulsion, with refusal generally constituting contempt.
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n. obsession with numbers, especially compulsion to count things. arithmometer, armiferous adj. - carrying weapons or arms. adj. - like, pertaining to or composed of rings. armillary sphere, celestial globe composed only of rings marking equator, tropics, etc.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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We were pretty much promised there would be no compulsion and we would not be forced to save.
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Political and power compulsions were ascendant.
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If there is a solution to the pensions crisis that stops short of recommending compulsion, it will clearly involve employers and company pensions schemes.
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In his defence, he declares that the death of his mother, Sylvia, from leukaemia, when he was only 16, sparked a compulsion to blot everything out, whatever the damage to his own body.
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We of all people ought to be able to tell the difference between moral suasion and compulsion.
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Unless individuals of all ages save now without compulsion, even the minimum income guarantee may not be available when the time comes.
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Since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did for Richard Nixon, journalists have had a compulsion to designate scandals by adding the postfix "gate".
Neither her sex nor status should save Theresa May if she's misled us | Andrew Rawnsley
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The muscles in her neck twitched and stood out in cords as she fought the compulsion to bend her head.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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While recognizing that the complainant said “no” throughout the incident, the court stated that the legislature intended the term forcible compulsion to mean “something more than a lack of consent.”
False Rape Reports
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The idea has not been born out of the concern for farmers, but due to political compulsions.
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The value of the SSRIs to treat the obsessions and compulsions associated with TS remains to be resolved.
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An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
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He has obsessive thoughts but no compulsions, though he would do anything for the ring.
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But in the final laps of a close race, friends and family fade to black against the overpowering compulsion to win.
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No, it is not by sorrowing, nor by compulsion that truth can prosper, it is by patient work alone that the work can be done: -
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According to the enneagram, our weaknesses seem to come from a central compulsion or preoccupation by our way of paying attention and searching for something or avoiding certain things in life.
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Our own species' compulsion to selectively breed any animal that can be kept as a pet led to a trade in ‘fancy’ mice, those with odd coat colors and forms (including tailless Manx mice).
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Compulsion is not the answer to get kids to perform better in school.
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His voice is R. Kelly on a hit of helium or Prince stricken with echolalia, the compulsion to repeat words.
Album review of 'Love King' by The-Dream
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Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money.
George Washington’s First War
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The playwright's rabbity, put-upon Everyloser is a clock-tower sniper in the making; a weird, nervous, socially maladjusted little knot of nerves riddled with neuroses, delusions and obsessive-compulsions.
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In addition, obsessions and compulsions related to food are common.
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This consists of recurring obsessions or compulsions.
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An alternative is for the government to bring in some sort of compulsion for workers and/or employers to pay into a pension scheme.
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Patriotic nation building is at once linked to and disarticulated from the adventures of empire, the vulgar and excremental body, the cosmopolitan imaginary, and the compulsions of language.
About This Volume
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Commercial registration law which is legislative form of commercial registration legal system has three legal characters: public law, compulsion, procedure.
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Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
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There is, of course, no doubt that a payment made in response to an unlawful demand under duress or compulsion may be recovered.
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Now, I've no specific objection to one's needy compulsion to share mundane personal blather but, for myself, I find it pointless and distracting.
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However, he did not seem to comprehend the possibility that self organisation and compulsion are mutually exclusive.
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The compulsion that has driven the directors of these movies is beyond my understanding.
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He says the compulsion of scientists to find the absolute truth can lead to a kind of intellectual tyranny.
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Assessments were made using the BDI, and clinician rated obsessions and compulsions for each individual patient.
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Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses.
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In cases such as the present both the concept of want of consideration and payment under implied compulsion are in play.
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She had forgotten the compulsion of his confident smile, the total assurance he carried everywhere he went.
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You fail to appreciate that our President is under compulsion from a higher authority than even our Holy Constition.
Is That Legal?: Sleep Deprivation - Movie Style: Stalag 17
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If, then, the case comes before a court, according to the conditions of public right, it must either be presumed that the donor has consented to such compulsion, or the court would give no regard, in the sentence, to the consideration as to whether he intended to reserve the right to resile from his promise or not; but would only refer to what is certain, namely, the condition of the promise and the acceptance of the donatory.
The Science of Right
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Introspection and a compulsion to fleet-footed unexpectedness mean that I sometimes cannot trust my inclinations.
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And if religion was rational, and basic truths were plain, what justification could there be for compulsion?
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This Ghetto crowding is not through inclination, but compulsion.
THE GHETTO
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In the UCLA treatment, patients first "relabel" their compulsion.
For The Obsessed, The Mind Can Fix The Brain
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But that their realization requires compulsion, and _compulsion in the form of a dictatorship_, is ordinarily not comprehended.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
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Although her expression showed nothing, her compulsion spells had to be ripping her apart, demanding that she rescue the witch.
Crimson Wind
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He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
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Truly, we can not free ourselves of our compulsion to do what is wrong, especially when inherently selfish motives are involved, like greed, gluttony, and lust.
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Of any thing worth having, compulsion is a most unsuitable instrument for conveying it to mankind.
Letter 111
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Zeno believed that people could govern their actions without the need for external compulsion.
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He seems to be driven by some kind of inner compulsion.
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He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Some people who were buying a fur said they never thought to buy a fur, but they felt a compulsion to make a statement.
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Presumably they have all left their warm beds at the compulsion of some overmastering motive: duty, ambition, or fear of poverty.
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By choice or through compulsion, many - though perhaps fewer than in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - embarked on what seemed a surer path to salvation by entering monasteries and convents.
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The government has moved away from compulsion towards economic incentives for couples who have only one child and fines for those who have more.
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One person may be plagued by private rituals or compulsions or repetitive thoughts of which no one else is aware.
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However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages.
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Bored of earthly delights, he takes his compulsion for pleasure to the nth degree.
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Only a few do not compromise their principles under any compulsion.
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I'm ashamed to admit that my hunger to raise wonderful children has dwindled as well--all I am left with is a compulsion to satiate myself with material goods, comfort food, and short-term stimulation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement
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It is an irresistible compulsion, driven by unshakeable guilt and the constant need for endorsement.
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The common thread linking these threats to U.S. export growth is America's current antitrade compulsions, typified by Congress's refusal to ratify free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
World Tariff Wars
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Houdini, who preferred the description mystifier to magician, appealed to that basic compulsion.
Kelly Candaele: Harry Houdini's Message from the Grave
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Obsessions and compulsions often develop in people who live stressful lives.
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This game gives me a compulsion to my already obsessive nature to keep playing and to kill everyone who isn't me.
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The other kind of adjuration is by way of compulsion: and, seemingly, neither is it lawful to use this towards them, because we have not the power to command irrational creatures, but only He of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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People may develop compulsions such as excessive cleaning or counting.
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There are no compulsions on students to attend classes.
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Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
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I know that I will always have to write. It's more than a compulsion or obsession.
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Detective Jake Gittes, tricked by Cross into smearing Mulwray, does not escape the compulsion to repeat.
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though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game
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If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia
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Falsely interpreting the proposition as necessarily implying, not merely moral obligation, but also compulsion and coercion, they rejected it as unevangelical and semipopish.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Where Meg is seeking accord through sympathic communion, using diplomacy as her strategy, Petey has turned to antipathic combat, to the strategy of compulsion, but he too, make no mistake, is trying to generate an accord of sorts -- of obedience.
Archive 2008-09-01
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In so doing, they suggest that the conflict to which the artist alludes in the exhibition's title is a personal struggle with his own compulsions.
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Ethan smiled, enjoying the intimate sensation of the dewy skin he caressed with such compulsion.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
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Chiara and Fabio are part of the same movement or fashion or compulsion: they have come from Italy especially for the convention, parading faces completely covered in phantasmagoric designs finished off with piercings.
Tattoos: Eyecatching – but are they art?
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But with its circuitous plot and its relentless dig-in-the-ribs jokiness it lacks the compulsion of great storytelling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flight served no useful purpose at all: there was no need or compulsion to join it.
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That quirk also gave him repetition compulsions and an obsession about praying.
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The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
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Above all, it was, and still is, a book that imparts in me a kind of interrogative compulsion, compelling me to question everything I did in the classroom, especially those cherished assumptions I didn’t even know I had.
L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
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Many a girl drops out even at the primary level because of social compulsions.
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They understood your compulsions and thought that if nothing else they can at least cry on your shoulder.
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The legal system is based on compulsion.
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To the extent these reforms succeed they'd yield a double dividend: solving the problems we face now, while minimising the degree of compulsion required in the future.
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he felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident
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He cross-dresses for the ‘feeling’ of being a woman and in order to assume the emotions and behaviours associated with femaleness, not for any erotic reasons or compulsions.
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Compulsion will never result in convincing them.
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We may have the classic symptoms of the workaholic - the compulsion to spend hours away from home, the misplaced feeling of virtue - but none of this is proof we are accomplishing anything.
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The samovar was most welcome, and in fact the samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes; even the mother was induced to drink two cups — though, of course, only with much urging and almost compulsion.
A Raw Youth
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Through the symbolic notation provided by supernatural motifs, we can identify the features of four principal paradigms: annihilation, compulsion, separation, and transformation.
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There is no compulsion on the farmer to provide education at all.
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Other times, compulsions might seem less clearly related to the obsessive thought.
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Unfortunately, it seems as if he has a compulsion to negate those brilliant pieces by introducing ill advised mushy sentimentality.
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It reminded me of Get Shorty in which celebrities have a strange compulsion to overcomplicate food orders.
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More unbelievable than the ghosts in the cornfield is the wife who not only understands her husband's crazy compulsions but actively supports them.
Lance Mannion:
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The sad thing is, the compulsion to overbuy doesn't end with food.
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In this way "he certainly is relatively free, namely from the immediate compulsion of objects that are present through intuition" (31).
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
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If every action, which is good or evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance and prescription and compulsion, what were virtue but a name, what praise could be then due to well-doing, what gramercy to be sober, just, or continent?
Areopagitica
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In every scene, we can sense monsters, demons, and compulsions lurking just beneath surface.
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McAdam Freud's latest incantation of Sisyphus, more amorphous than its medallic counterpart, which makes palpable the conceptual roots of Sigmund Freud's repetition compulsion.
Penelope Andrew: The Freud(ian)s: Inspired by Sigmund's Passion for Antiquities, Jane Debuts Her Own Paradigms of the Unconscious
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As many of you will know, composting is a kind of compulsion - once you've discovered the fascination of being able to turn grotty garden waste into rich, crumbly, dark brown compost, you never grow out of it.
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On the one hand, if it can be established that money is paid over by duress or compulsion, it is recoverable.
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Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a welborne and gentle nature: If you would have him stand in awe of shame and punishment, doe not so much enure him to it: accustome him patiently to endure sweat and cold, the sharpnesse of the wind, the heat of the sunne, and how to despise all hazards.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson.
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Parliament has since amended the law, in the light of that judgment, to make evidence obtained under compulsion inadmissible.
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Others feel the need for a bit of encouragement, a sense that the preacher understands or better still sympathises with the compulsions of their lives.
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In cases such as the present both the concept of want of consideration and payment under implied compulsion are in play.
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He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
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Among the very oldest sanctities are the human rites of compulsion.
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So the learning process, that interaction between humans and between us and our environment, that complicated psychological and cultural practice, that dance of motivation and compulsion, is being handcuffed into narrow moments of transmission -- the downloading of facts.
Rick Ayers: It's Time to Decriminalize Learning
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Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful existential anguish.
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Thus, our "unfinished feeling" represents in itself an obscure demand for a resolution of the unadjusted; it corresponds to that inner compulsion which operates upon the imperfect consciousness of the dreamer, or upon the mentality of any person seeking the solution of a problem or "perplex," either asleep, or awake -- as I trust you all still remain.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
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He has tried a hypnotist for his compulsion but that didn't seem to help.
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If at all they had called her, it had been under compulsion from either the film directors or the producers.
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Introduction I. Enforcing Law Law may be enforced by compulsion and coercion, or by conciliation and compromise.
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She had forgotten the compulsion of his confident smile, the total assurance he carried everywhere he went.
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Voting should be simple, especially in a country that uses compulsion to make people attend polling places.
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Serving humanity through compassion and serving humanity through compulsion are two different things.
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Ants endowed with a compulsion to chew through grass stems at a particular height, snakes engineered to create antivenin in a mammalian-derived sheath, beetles gifted with digestive enzymes that converted discarded plastics into chitin.
The Last Liverbeast « A Fly in Amber
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Emetophobia routinely leads to a fear of germs and a compulsion to clean and wash.
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If a person has acted under compulsion he is not considered an apostate, his wife is not divorced and his lands are not forfeited.
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I'm thinking, too, of the person whose weird little compulsions drive him and his relations almost mad with frustration.
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Our whole trade is one of sufferance and compulsion, and by force alone can be maintained…
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Detective Jake Gittes, tricked by Cross into smearing Mulwray, does not escape the compulsion to repeat.
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I think it stems from a compulsion to overshare, entertain and let off steam.
The Sun
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She also governs graphomania in all its manifestations, and the related ekdotomania, the compulsion to publish a new book every year.
The Anti-Muses : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.
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Music more than any other art forces us to feel causal efficacy, the compulsion of process, the dominating control of the physically given over possibilities throughout the concrescence of an experience.
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So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch.
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Behavioral therapy can be used to lessen unwanted compulsions.
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He seemed to conjure up contradictory feelings of self-abnegation and self-righteousness, of the need for charity and the compulsion to talk about one's personal sense of sacrifice.
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Because I realize that the compulsion is almost irresistable.
And so it begins.
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For Cassie, going undercover is almost a compulsion.
The Likeness by Tana French: Questions
