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Example sentences for: compulsion

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About the only mystery left is the psychological roots of the president's compulsion to lie under oath.
Why, oh why, do the neighbors feel this compulsion to brush aside the dark side of the killer next door?
Buchanan and Clift agree--for once--in their prediction that Congress will legislate some form of protection for agents from a compulsion to testify.
Bush's compulsion to smile is essentially southern, but the smile itself is corrupted by other influences (a few possibilities were cited in Chatterbox's previous item) that transform it into a smirk;
And being under the compulsion of no timetable, it does not get panicky under the necessity for such retreat.