Word Finder - compelling

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To drive together, round up

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To overpower; to subdue.

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To force, constrain or coerce.

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Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.

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To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

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To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

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To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

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To call forth; to summon.

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An act of compulsion; an obliging somebody to do something.

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Strongly or irresistibly evoking interest or attention.

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There are compelling reasons why a manager should have previous experience.

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Forceful.

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The politician had compelling ambition.

The air felt a little heavier around her as he spoke, compelling her attention to him.

Depending on function, robots can come in all shapes and sizes, and I see no compelling reason to make them like humans.

He opposed the compelling of Protestant Nonconformists to take the oath required of Roman Catholics.

War disrupts this, and people will have little patience for it if there is not an extremely compelling reason for it.

The statute also contained clauses for compelling the English settlers to keep the laws.

Once you've said it, it becomes compelling.

In concluding treaties with the vassal princes since 1905, the Dutch have kept in view the necessity of compelling them properly to administer the revenues of their states, which some of them formerly squandered in their personal uses.

It was subtle but compelling, drawing her attention involuntarily.

On the 23rd of May 1611 Matthias, brother of the emperor, assumed the Bohemian crown in Prague, compelling Rudolph to take refuge in the citadel, where he died on the 20th of January following.

The blood ensnared her senses at once, compelling her attention to the maroon droplets.

Our business case was centered on the costs and savings rather than the wider open standards issues, and ultimately this proved compelling.

It must have been at this time that an addition was made by Waynflete to the Eton college statutes, compelling the fellows to forswear the heresies of John Wycliffe and Pecock.

Notwithstanding the concessions, obstruction was continued by the Clericals and the extreme Independents, partly in the hope of compelling the crown to grant the Magyar words of command and partly out of antipathy towards the person of the young calvinist premier.

Seeing the importance of taking the initiative, and if possible, of securing Saxony, he suddenly, on the 24th of August 1756, crossed the frontier of that country, and shut in the Saxon army between Pirna and Konigstein, ultimately compelling it, after a victory gained over the Austrians at Lobositz, to surrender.

Again, this is because without compelling, widely accepted facts, we use things we've learned from other parts of our lives to make our decisions.

In the prolonged discussions regarding the Bill of Indemnity he was instrumental in saving the life of Haselrig, and opposed the clause compelling all officers who had served under Cromwell to refund their salaries, he himself never having had any.

The constables of these castles had adopted the custom of compelling these landholders to give money and not service, mercenaries being then hired to perform this.

He acted in the same spirit a few months later, when (about July 1839), understanding that the authorities intended to prevent the despatch of emigrants to New Zealand, he hurried them off on his own responsibility, thus compelling the government to annex the country just in time to anticipate a similar step on the part of France.

With horses only just recovering from an epidemic, they proved quite unequal to the task of catching the Cossacks, who swarmed round them in every direction, never accepting an engagement but compelling a constant watchfulness for which nothing in their previous experience had sufficiently prepared the French.

When the currents flow through the two coils, forces are brought into action compelling the coils to set their axes in the same direction, and these forces can be opposed by another torque due to the control of a spiral spring regulated by moving a torsion head on the instrument.

He began by compelling the people of Madrid to give up emptying their slops out of the windows, and when they objected he said they were like children who cried when their faces were washed.

Hugh, who in the family feud with Calvagh had allied himself with O'Neill, now turned round and combined with the English to crush the hereditary enemy of his family; and in 1567 he utterly routed Shane at Letterkenny with the loss of 1300 men, compelling him to seek refuge with the MacDonnells of Antrim, by whom he was treacherously put to death.

It is quite evident from the action which President Kruger subsequently took in the matter that this charge was put on with his approval, and with the object of compelling traffic to be brought to the Transvaal by the Delagoa route, instead of as heretofore by the colonial railway.

Under the later Plantagenets and the Lancastrian kings the great check on the power of the crown had been that financial difficulties were continually compelling the sovereign to summon parliaments.

Technically he was justified in adopting this course, but people generally felt that there was some hardship in compelling a young queen to separate herself from her companions and friends, and they consequently approved the decision of Lord Melbourne to support the queen in her refusal, and to resume office.

Burnham's record of discovery, which roused fresh enthusiasm for this line of inquiry by compelling recognition of the extraordinary profusion throughout the heavens of compound objects.

He also carried through Parliament an important Housing and Town-Planning bill compelling local authorities to provide housing schemes, and obtained parliamentary sanction to an arrangement for the issue by such authorities of housing bonds.

Otherwise Khartum was deserted, the khalifa making Omdurman his capital and compelling disaffected tribes to dwell in it so as to be under better control.

Deities did not summon formerly dead-dead Immortals to them without a compelling reason.

Albeit none of it definitely proved to be duplicity by Byrne beyond strong circumstantial evidence, but together the coincidences were compelling.

Jessi gazed up at him, overwhelmed by the compelling aura around him without understanding it.

This running "subplot" gave Country House a compelling narrative to run alongside the history.

His description of the courage and despair of his fellow captives is very compelling.

Unfortunately, most people don't find those data very compelling.

Flash movies are a popular way to make websites more compelling.

The risk inherent in any notion of war in space of a " tragedy of the commons " is utterly compelling.

Forever is a compelling modern tale of friendship that will resonate with audiences of all ages.

Passionate, powerful and provocative words weaved together to form an image that is compelling to all the senses.

You have to be able to tell a compelling story in very few words, which is by no means a simple task.

Secondly, they seem to believe that their content is sufficiently compelling that people will want to pay to hear it.

But it remains compelling how many people in power are still prepared to talk to the paper.

Ask what kinds of return would they find compelling.

It's a totally compelling story, with a bunch of likeable characters and a truly detestable villain.

Its fun to the market it the compelling drama they are frequently.

There's what I think are electric guitars, along with thumping drums and compelling vocals.

Meet the man who may have made a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes, and hear compelling stories from survivors and rescuers.

Heru was known to the Greeks as Horus, suggesting a compelling etymology for the word " horizon.

Seeds of Peace offered a compelling evocation of the pain and futility of war.

Even using such broad strokes, Fridriksson could have created a more compelling fable.

James Macmillan's ' Ballad ' adds modern piano figurations to an authentic-sounding vocal line and gets a compelling performance from James.