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The desire to make a difference in the world impelled her to pursue a career in medicine.impelled = drove
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Concern for her children's safety impelled her to take action and confront the intruder.
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (source)impel = drive
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A street drunk, impelled by emptiness and thirst.† (source)
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At home, it was galling to think of how others were talking about us, bad enough to think of their ridicule or disapproval, but worse to think how they were surely entertained by us, how this stinging, goading, angry self-consciousness that impelled me every day, every minute, to seek relief was nothing to them, something they couldn't feel and hardly ever gave a thought to.† (source)
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The guard has a son twenty-three years old, and the slaying impels the young man to go to the United States.† (source)
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A combination of horror and desire subsequently impelled him back each evening, despite his earlier resolution that they do nothing that was disrespectful to his parents, and they would touch and stroke and taste, always stopping short of sex, upon which she no longer insisted, and which they had by now found ample means to circumvent.† (source)
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Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant.† (source)
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My determination to act with honor and integrity impels me to work in service to my country.† (source)
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He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.† (source)
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There are times, Your Honor, when reality bears features of such an impellingly moral complexion that it is impossible to follow the hewn path of expediency.† (source)
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Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.† (source)
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To her, each shot seemed to impel him forward, the reverse of her desire; and for him, the closer he got to her, the more she shot him.† (source)
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I cannot prevent your cultivating this acquaintance now that it has been made, if curiosity impels you to do so.† (source)
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Who would have thought that upon the proud day when this battle was won, the very gale which waved the Saxon banners in triumph, was filling the Norman sails, and impelling them to the fatal shores of Sussex?† (source)
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Impelled by some urge, half pity and half annoyance, Kit came forward from the shelter of the trees.† (source)
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