Example sentences for: compelled

How can you use “compelled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.

  • That is why I believe that few police officers--or prosecutors--would accept a blanket prohibition on police interrogation in exchange for compelled pretrial depositions.

  • Anticipating this strategy, Congress passed the "Defense of Marriage Act" in 1996, declaring that states would not be compelled to recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere.

  • Department of Justice declined to obtain an order of use immunity so that Abdullah's testimony could be compelled.

  • Most notably, he suggests compulsory labeling of online content without mentioning the First Amendment problem of "compelled speech" that clearly would arise, and without discussing whether such compulsory labeling would be constitutional if imposed on books and newspapers.


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