This is one objective of the Taimanov: It virtually compels White to play a quiet positional game.

Her case was strong enough to virtually compel the defendant to take the witness stand, where his own account proved even more persuasive.

The move 8 . . . h6 virtually compels White to break the pin of the f6 knight because 9 Bh4 Ne4!

If public relations experts, in Marchand's words, "often piously asserted that public statements of high purpose could virtually compel a corporation to live up to its image," there was some truth to the piety, as both he and Bird point out.

The commission report depicts a police subculture that virtually compels excessive use of force.

Here, exquisite gradations of light gray virtually compel the viewer to study every inch of this alien landscape and to marvel at the tiny resting figures of camels and their riders in a vast expanse of shifting sand.

After clearing this hurdle, the federal government virtually compelled TCPL into a merger with Western pipelines.

Like other IMG parents I talked with, the Winegardners seemed to believe their son's passion and talent virtually compelled them to pay for his total sports immersion - that if they had not, a moment and perhaps an opportunity would have passed.

For by overriding the information and entertainment needs of millions of customers, Time Warner virtually compelled federal regulators to take a more searching look at Time Warner's proposed merger with AOL.

As Auerbach observes, this narrative strategy virtually compels readers to add their own interpretations to the text.