However, the meaning of these terms is reasonably well-defined only in second language acquisition or language replacement events, when the native speakers of a certain source language (the substrate) are somehow compelled to abandon it for another target language (the superstrate).

He didn't have to be psychic himself to know she was bothered by this serial kidnapper, that she felt somehow compelled to involve herself in the situation.

After rescuing Luka she is somehow compelled to saving him.

Can it be that the government is inadvertently helping them do this, or even that they have somehow compelled it to act as it does?

And while some of their friends say the brothers were somewhat estranged, Mexican officials have never said anything to dispel public suspicions that Mario Ruiz Massieu would never have protected Raul Salinas if Carlos Salinas had not somehow compelled him to do so.

He placed his own free hand on top of hers, nervous, yet somehow compelled.

This isn't the annihilating violence of criticism at its most cruel; rather, this is the act of the lover who, having long adored the object, now feels compelled somehow to possess it.

"I've been out shopping," Frannie said, somehow equally compelled to explain herself--and the highly suspicious presence of shopping bags in her hands.

The implication that Mr. Starr was somehow compelled to offer up such unpleasant material raises the question of whether this was a road that any independent counsel needed to travel in the first place.

From what I knew about him socially-and before that day's session had started, I thought I knew most of what there was to know-Bob didn't have repeated personal conversations with people with whom he wasn't somehow compelled to relate.