Spearphishing, too, draws on traditional Chinese stratagems: "The Chinese strive to impel opponents to follow a line of reasoning that they (the Chinese) craft, " Mr. Thomas wrote in 2007.

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Even if they were right, one would think that their responsibility as citizens charged with a serious inquiry would impel them to look at all the evidence.

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Such mania will often impel one to take out one's phone and swipe madly through a variety of screens with much eye-rolling and sighing -- in an effort to display just how busy and harried one is -- even if, in reality, one is merely scrolling through one's Spotify playlist of Disney music.

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The prevailing style is realist, but it is regularly beset by mixed, toilsome aims: Wall has harbored enough motives to impel several artists, and they have tended to get in the way of one another.

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If anything, I believe that such restraint is likely to impel, rather than restrain, proliferation.

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Heroic pronouncements like the one above, which would seem to raise the specter of failure and impel employees forward, perversely do just the opposite: they incent employees to lobby to lower the bar and slip the delivery date.

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Williams says she hopes the Nobel Peace Prize decision would impel those countries that have not yet agreed to sign the treaty in December to do so.

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