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Meaning compel meaning

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compel Verb

— To drive together, round up. — If you are compelled to do something, you are forced to do it.

compel

— verb force somebody to do something We compel all students to fill out this form — verb necessitate or exact the water shortage compels conservation

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Compel

Conjugation compel conjugation

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Simple sentences

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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If he were in his right mind, I believe he could compel people to do his will right from his cell.
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, in thunder and in earthquake like a Jove, that if requiring fail, he will compel.
They compel me to ask have you a conscientious objection to remaining as the head of Rocket Group?
These invitations compel us to stay in town.
A and it will compel the director to open the safe.
You give me no alternative but to compel you to enjoy yourself.
I've persuaded the High Command that the mere fact of your capture. will compel the Allies to alter their plans. but this, it seems, is not enough.
I know you didn't mean any harm to any of them. but you just wanted to compel me to return.
Mister Boblig uses such inhuman methods that he can compel anyone to confess to anything, however shameful.
Master, do not compel me! I beseech you!
And if you won't help me freely, I must tell you something, Lady, that may compel you.
Such a marriage would compel me to raise you to an exalted rank.
And if i had the means, i would compel you.
He searched for ways to compel nature to divulge her secrets.
Find me a way to compel his return without having to punish him.
But did you wish, compel him to die?
I know you didn't mean any harm to any of them. you just wanted to compel me to return.
Having won with Flail, decency and fairness compel me to stay with him.
Listen, sir, could you compel a man to marry a woman?
I am more reasonable than you think. I don't wish to compel you.
By your submission and respectful conduct you compel me to forget my anger.
The three expensive fur coats in the visitors' room obviously compel the young ladies to put on a fashion show.
What happens if I refuse? The judge might compel you.
Keeping me prisoner will not compel me to discuss anything.
Therefore, in fierce tempest is he coming, in thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, that if requiring fail, he will compel.
There's no pattern. No visual rhythm. Nothing to compel her to keep going.
Your record and your age will compel me to sent you to a reformatory.
That, if requiring fail, he will compel.
To work you so very hard, my dear, to compel such self-sacrifiice of you.
If I could get the Princess to Spain, the King will protect her. Under the threat of war we'll compel the Council to reject Lavalle and recognise my son.
Master, do not compel me!
In these circumstances it seems inappropriate to compel him.
Shall I be forced to compel you, Doctor?
He must compel himself to live.
Nothing to compel her to keep going.
How you can compel this woman to maintain that it the mother of your Child is while in obviousness she cannot the being? It is too old.
Recent events compel me to study how humans perceive the passage of time.
I'd like to know what would compel you to buy Pompon diapers.
Who are we to doubt his word and compel him to remain here?
I will not compel you to testify, Advocate.

News and current affairs

Prior to the crisis, many suspected that the mix of aggregate demand that was supporting high growth was unsustainable, though the problem perhaps seemed too hypothetical to compel collective action.
There is a person who might compel Yanukovych to retreat to democratic norms and thus hold off such protests -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
So, if massive use of force fails, how is a big country, believing that its interests or moral duty compel it to intervene in the affairs of a small one, to do so successfully?
Global public opinion should be channeled more effectively in order to compel the international community to take responsibility in new areas.
Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option: bribing the periphery to remain in a low-growth uncompetitive state.
A higher level of economic, fiscal, and political integration will also compel the amendment of national constitutions.
Such measures would serve notice to investors that they cannot hope to be saved by the printing press in times of crisis, and would thus compel them to demand higher interest rates or deter them from granting credit in the first place.
The Italian president can also compel parliamentary deputies to rethink their decisions (in the United Kingdom, the monarch has outsourced this authority to the House of Lords).
Finally, global economic conditions will compel even more restructuring upon Japan.
Policymakers may not be able to compel citizens to ration their consumption.
The state can support its development, preservation, and renewal, but cannot compel its existence.
The global public must unite to compel decision-makers to take real action aimed at overcoming obstacles to peace, harmony, and sustainability.
Recent attempts to compel change have been counter-productive.
A country can compel others to advance its interests in three main ways: through coercion, payment, or attraction.
Indeed, the catastrophes in Japan might finally achieve what decades of conflict in the Middle East have not: compel governments to invest in the research required to develop viable energy alternatives.
But the funding for expanding these efforts will rest largely on provincial officials, who will be reluctant to compel local cadres to disrupt production and lay off even more workers.
Empirical evidence supports this transition, and international human-rights obligations compel such a move.
But recalling the plight of Europe's Jews in the 1930s should compel us to reject indifference to the fate of those with nowhere else to turn.
For starters, Germany, together with the European Commission, can compel France to pursue deeper reforms in exchange for more time to consolidate its deficit.
Still, the recognition of China as a true global power would force the US to come to terms with its declining hegemony and compel China's leaders to recognize their international responsibilities.
A breakthrough might compel a phase of intense diplomacy, giving Iran a pathway to diplomatic normalization and opening the door for grand bargains that could begin to restore order and stability to the rest of the region.
Against this background, it is perhaps unsurprising that Hamas managed to compel most Israelis living in areas adjacent to Gaza to flee, with many Israelis accusing their government of failing to protect its citizens adequately.
In any event, China's power may be vast and rapidly growing, but it lacks the ability to compel.
Simply put, historic guilt is no longer adequate to compel Germany to support Israel's wrongheaded policies - especially when those policies are victimizing another group, the Palestinians.
It also lacks the means to compel others to follow its lead.

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