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• v  urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
• v  cause to move forward with force
• s  urged or forced to action through moral pressure
  felt impelled to take a stand against the issue

• It has been a year of political risk taking in Latin America as leaders tried to forge landmark social and political changes, sometimes impelled by desperation, sometimes not.
• A few minutes after the sighting, Barney Hill turned the car down a side road, impelled by some extrasensory command.
• Indeed, the three points of his abstractly designed universe (he is given to drawing incomprehensible diagrams on any available surface) reflect that people who used to be impelled .

• impel
• force
• propel
• driven

News & Articles

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• PM Council, Inc Begins 4-day Weekend Classroom Courses for PMP Certification Training in Charlotte, NC
  The boot camp is impelled by the rising popularity and demand of PM Council’s Certification and Training courses and the upcoming PMP exam change from July 31, 2013. (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10815870.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Wallace D Wattles in Washington Post
  By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you,Wattles wrote.
• Anthony Kennedy in Los Angeles Times
  We are impelled to give real content to the concept of qualified immunity for high-level officials who must be neither deterred nor detracted from the vigorous performance of their duties,Kennedy said.