compelling reason

collocation in English

meaningsofcompellingandreason

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compelling
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
us
/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is ...
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reason
noun
uk
/ˈriː.zən/
us
/ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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(Definition ofcompellingandreasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcompelling reason

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What could thecompellingreasonbe?
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There is another and morecompellingreason.
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That leaves us withoutcompellingreasonto accept that premise, and so withoutcompellingreasonto regard the master argument as sound.
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Secondly, there is nocompellingreasonfor reinterpreting legal duties as necessarily involving sanctions.
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All in all, he can find no rational arguments and nocompellingreasonfor the decision.
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The mostcompellingreasonfor the 1808-11 repression was an obsession with law and order.
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There is nocompellingreasonto modify them at the rapid distortion state.
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But then, in our dynamical problem, there is nocompellingreasonwhy the equilibrium value should be relevant.
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Secondly, as we explained above, we contend that there is nocompellingreasonwhy that relationship has to be linear.
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There is, however, acompellingreasonto resist these consequentialist interpretations of this, first, worth-based argument.
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This is anothercompellingreasonwhy ethics education is vital for physicians and other health practitioners and healthcare administrators.
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In the absence of fully informed and uncoerced consent, the wrongful harming is acompellingreasonfor legal intervention.
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The mostcompellingreasonagainst completeness is that it is awkward to state as an axiom or inference rule.
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There is nocompellingreasonfor delay.
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It is an especiallycompellingreason.
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There is an even morecompellingreason.
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But there is a morecompellingreason.
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There is often acompellingreasonfor taking some action.
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But there is a still morecompellingreasonthan that.
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To me that is acompellingreason, an overwhelming reason.
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I do not find that a verycompellingreason.
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There is a second and morecompellingreason.
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There may be, but that is not acompellingreason.
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