Peace reveals that since Patience's birth, he had been fighting a powerful compulsion to bring her to Cranning, home of the geblings.

Despite himself he felt a powerful compulsion.

The powerful compulsion not to speak about Asharak was obviously gone.

"I know there was a powerful compulsion to think of home."

I was in the grip of compulsion far bigger and more powerful than I could hope to fight on my own.

He felt a powerful compulsion to attack, and yet a fearful dismay.

They were therefore under the most powerful compulsion to adapt their ideas and tailor their programmes to ensure that they had mass appeal.

Lust can be a powerful compulsion, can't it?

Walter felt a powerful compulsion.

This is a powerful compulsion to comply.