This is part of a screencap taken from some local news site. An unfortunate side effect of computer technology is that now any dumbass can tap out a bunch of words on a keyboard, run it through spellcheck and think it’s good. An editor–a real, live professional editor–would have picked up on the word “propel” in this article because…it’s wrong. Propel does mean “to move forward”, but generally in a physical sense. Your friend might give you a push to propel you forward when you’re too shy to go talk to that good looking guy over by the bar. A speedboat’s motor propels it. There’s a reason the spinning thing on the front of a light plane is called a “prop”…it’s short for propeller. Stretched to its limit, I suppose that propel could be used in the sense it is here, but the word the writer actually meant was not propel; it was compel. That means to force, coerce or necessitate…figurative movement, not literal. An alcoholic who stops at a bar for lunch might be compelled (by his addiction) to order a drink as well. I was compelled to enter into a two-year contract with AT&T in order to get my iPhone (or at least to get it for less than $700). Anyone stupid enough to tattoo the sclera of his or her eye is obviously compelled to do so by a very special brand of crazy.