HMOs after a nervous breakdown leaves him with a compulsion to tell the truth.
Might the problem be more like a compulsion than an addiction, more like compulsive hand-washing than alcoholism?
For some writers it's a compulsion to go that distance and hear their voice as a remote echo.
If lawyers can show that food has addictive properties, they can argue that overeating isn't a choice but a compulsion.
Adam Brand, writing in Tuesday's Guardian, says Brown's script shows signs of "a compulsion and anxiety to get things right" while other elements reveal him to be someone who "likes to operate on his own".
But then you notice the shadowy purple figure seated in the background: a reflection, in the mirror, of Bonnard himself, a sort of omniscient voyeur, watching you watch his wife, whose sewing now looks more like a compulsion than a pastime.
But Inbox Zero, while it certainly forces me to confront and conquer that impulse, merely replaces it with a new compulsion and new anxieties.
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Along with the standard recession stories, there is a natural compulsion to focus on the human tragedies, not least of which are stories of investors who were heavy on stocks right into the credit crisis.
Perversely, the individual mandate compels individuals by law to purchase health insurance sold only within completely intrastate markets, a regulatory compulsion that by its very construction fails to involve the regulation of interstate commerce, which presumably authorizes it in the first instance.
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No doubt many a businessman has a hint of compulsion about them.
You need them to be safe, but it is a kind of compulsion for them to try and get out - they rattle doors.
For the first time Brazil is negotiating without the compulsion of a financial crisis.
How will you weigh your other values against loyalty so that you will not respond out of compulsion or a false sense of duty?
Politicians rarely think voluntary markets are so grand that they couldn't benefit from a good ol' dose of compulsion.
But without some element of compulsion, there will be a risk that many people may retire into poverty.
On average the subjects in the study checked their phones 34 times a day primarily out of habit or compulsion, and rarely out of need.
Although this is an improvement in many respects, compulsion in Australia has not proved a pensions solution.
Imam Ibn Qayyim said there is no disagreement in the Islamic community (ummah) on the fact that it is not permissible to utter disbelief in Allah (kufr) except under compulsion, if the person is a believer.
But former Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan, now working as a lobbyist, said there was no need for compulsion.
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Addictions can wreck lives, and it seems there is a thin line between intense and vigorous play and compulsion.
And of course, no business on its own wields the raw compulsion that Public Knowledge wants to see a politician unleash.
How can anyone think that Obamacare, a vast, badly structured mess with power of compulsion is going to behave on behalf of the patient?
Before the government resorts to compulsion, it may be worth waiting a few years to see how much younger workers save, says Mr Dilnot.
"We feel his compulsion, " says Douglas McFarland, a New Yorker who owns several models (he won't give out a precise number, but says it's "about 12" ).
This is more than witness tampering, it is witness compulsion of false testimony by an employer to a subordinate employee.
But once the parade began, my iPhone went from being a useful tool to being the object of my deep compulsion.
This may seem a cynical ploy to expand their business, but some compulsion is needed to get around the selection problem.
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