Compelling
21compelling — adjective 1. driving or forcing compelling ambition • Similar to: ↑powerful 2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument new and compelling evidence • Similar to: ↑persuasive …
22Compelling — Compel Com*pel , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compelling}.] [L. compellere, compulsum, to drive together, to compel, urge; com + pellere to drive: cf. OF. compellir. See {Pulse}.] 1. To drive or urge with force, or… …
23compelling interest test — n. In constitutional law, a method for determining the constitutionality of a statute that restricts the practice of a fundamental right or distinguishes between people due to a suspect classification. In order for the statute to be valid, there… …
24Compelling Evidence — is a crime novel by Italian American novelist Steve Martini as the first of the Paul Madriani series. Written in 1992, published by Putnam, Compelling Evidence was a bestseller. Plot Ben Potter is found dead; his wife, Talia, is indicted and… …
25compelling governmental interest test — >> compelling interest test. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …
26compelling state interest test — >> compelling interest test. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …
27compelling state interest — see interest 3a Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
28compelling quality — index necessity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
29Compelling state interest — The compelling state interest test is a test used by the US Federal Courts in due process and equal protection claims (all claims with Constitutional bases, actually) under the Fourteenth Amendment for state action and under the Fifth Amendment… …
30compelling — Synonyms and related words: actuating, acute, animating, causal, causative, clamorous, coactive, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictating, directive, driving, exigent, gripping,… …
