Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

AFTER a long interval, I am again impelled by the restless spirit within me to continue my narration; but I must alter the mode which I have hitherto adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [II.8] Reference

Yet, when she rose from the table, an urgent desire to keep him within call impelled her to pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosa Mundi and Other Stories] Reference

She had come in all haste, impelled by some vague hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

His glowing zeal impelled him to volunteer for the mission of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

Frank Nelson's leadership impelled him to abandon his planned career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

And in this book, she talks about what impelled her to go to West Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books for Armchair Travel and Adventure] Reference

Southern people are impelled by deep convictions in their present struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Aristotle tries to prove that he who dies for his country is impelled by self-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

He felt impelled to ascertain, when she questioned him, how great a friendship she bore him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And China, which has only a small nuclear arsenal, might feel impelled to build a bigger one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dropping The Bomb] Reference

Sara hardly knew why she felt impelled to supply so many particulars concerning the Durwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Isabel obeyed, and impelled by Miss Bowles 'vigorous arm, made a swinging leap out of the carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Sheridan objected to this most decidedly; and I was impelled to telegraph him, on the 14th, as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Notwithstanding this, however, I felt impelled to give my synthetical theory a fair experimental trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

That beings differing in their nature should be impelled to different courses of action can surprise no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

It was these relationships which impelled the rise of the atomic conception of matter and all its consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

In a moment I was on my feet again, and again I was impelled to climb, -- only, however, again to come to grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

One is impelled to seek for their proper appreciation and their reconciliation with the judgment of other moralists.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

This doctrine, taken as the average reader is almost inevitably impelled to take it, seems worthy of instant reprobation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

When he saw I was inclined to be somewhat quiet he felt impelled to say something, and offered the following compromising remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

So long as this latter condition obtained, man expressed in the sound itself what he felt impelled to communicate to his fellows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

He broke off abruptly, and she felt his arms slacken their hold and slowly unclasp as though impelled to it by some invisible force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Other states, impelled by ideology or stressed (like Arizona) by real burdens imposed by illegal immigrants, will jump into the fray.    From Wordnik.com.  [First blood in the immigration battle] Reference

He who recognizes this, therefore, feels impelled to look for a way which leads beyond a one-eyed, colour-blind conception of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The man is subject to various tensions, he is impelled in divers directions, he hesitates, deliberates, and he finally makes a decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Now openly a Catholic, he also seems impelled by a moral sense of duty, even if his particular choices sometimes outrage other moralists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair for President] Reference

She turned to go, then impelled by some mysterious influence, her eye traveled to the door of the small room at the left of the gymnasium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference

"And you, Mary Fuller?" she questioned, moving close to the shrinking girl, and speaking in a low voice, impelled to gentleness by womanly compassion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Because of your article, I am now impelled to make certain that my 86-year-old mother and my husband and I create Healthcare Advance Directives for ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Laughter, Tears--Or Sex] Reference

It was love for their children, their husbands, their kindred, or their homes rather than the selfish instinct of self-preservation which impelled Mrs. Porter, the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

It was a cruel necessity which impelled our brave heroines to draw their knives across the hamstrings of the tired horses, thus disabling them so as to prevent pursuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Moreover, because he was impelled by burning convictions to express freely his pronounced views, he was considered radical, and was misunderstood and disliked by many churchmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

She had come to my bedside after I had gone to rest for the night, impelled by a restlessness to be certain that all was well with her dear ones before she could close her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference