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Vitale—the plaintiffs and the defendant were from New Hyde Park, right on the other side of Stewart Manor’s main street—seems unlikely to have impelled my letter.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017

You will see in a few days a declaration setting forth the causes which have impelled us to this mighty revolution and the reasons which will justify it in the sight of God and man.

From US News • Jul. 4, 2014

In this kind of market, a further increase in prices would almost certainly have impelled more steel users to shift to substitute materials�or to foreign steel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diminishing receipts have impelled several theatres to re-engage their orchestras.

From Time Magazine Archive

If there had been a disposition among the American people impelling them to that course, it would assuredly have impelled them much farther.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie