The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will.
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Examples for "constraint "
Examples for "constraint "
1 Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint , thus key information remains obscured.
2 The IMF has cited the power shortage as a serious economic constraint .
3 The Rococo is violent in chains, insolent in constraint , drunken in sobriety.
4 Some of the Directors were put under constraint ; others supported the conspiracy.
5 She placed a strong constraint on herself; she spoke in friendly tones.
1 This level of support does not mean that coercion is not used.
2 Mr Ahn was charged with abuse of authority, coercion and attempted coercion .
3 Bellis knew that Johannes would have gone even without the Lovers' coercion .
4 Some had demanded increased wages, while only a few required physical coercion .
5 Well, it's okay if you want to say all taxes are coercion .
An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid.
1 The compulsion to try just-one-more-thing to fix a problem before going home.
2 However, for obvious reasons, they felt no compulsion to share their secret.
3 There shouldn't be a technology-driven compulsion to work in a certain way.
4 It just doesn't happen without serious derangement-orsome kind of magical compulsion .
5 There was some pleasure in the power, and a certain compulsion too.
6 But now he saw that with the power came a deep compulsion .
7 He told Morning Report that the compulsion recommendation was on the table.
8 Loneliness is a passive compulsion ; to binge, I need only do nothing.
9 Pinball machines create an unstoppable compulsion ! - it also miscategorizes what addiction really is.
10 There is absolutely no compulsion , by anyone, of anyone, at any time.
11 Such a compulsion in past times would have been called a geas.
12 The creative impulse was everywhere replacing fear and compulsion in human motives.
13 So said the books, but he still felt a compulsion and prying.
14 Within a week, dozens more had been overcome by the same compulsion .
15 I felt the compulsion begin even before I returned to the city.
16 They then refused to pay under compulsion ; and a complete deadlock ensued.
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Translations for compulsion
Compulsion в диалектах
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