Example Sentences

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And that, hopefully, will impel elected officials and candidates to change their approaches to fiscal matters.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2018

But if Warmbier’s death affected Trump as deeply as he claims, Snyder also hopes it will impel the White House to factor the human-rights issue into a new approach.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2017

U.S. and European officials have clung to the hope that sanctions will impel Putin to abide by the Minsk accord, a September deal between Kiev and Moscow.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2014

Like the two sad sisters at Bethany, she is sure that to tell Him of trouble is enough, for that His own heart will impel Him to share, and perchance to relieve it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

It never doubts the motive power that will impel it; it is afraid, if anything, of an excess of power, and consciously imposes upon itself the limits which give it form.

From First and Last by Belloc, Hilaire