O'Connell's ensuing triumphant election compelled the British prime minister, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel to carry the Emancipation Act of 1829 in Parliament.
The justices who dissented in Citizens United may feel compelled in this election year to quote on the record Justice Nelson's trenchant critiques of the two-year-old decision's reasoning.
Even as the groundswell to enlist the Muslim vote deepens, I find I am compelled to sit this election out.
Then, lacking support, they inevitably are compelled to hold another election — and the Thaksin party wins again.
"Unless the seat allocation formula is reconsidered in a just manner, the people of the Kurdistan region will be compelled to boycott the election," the Kurdistan regional president, Massoud Barzani, said in a statement.
But it seemed to be common ground among the Florida justices that the order required them to show two things: first, that a decision to order further recounts was compelled by the Florida election code, grounded in choices made and priorities set by the state Legislature and, second, that the Legislature had made those choices and set those priorities well before Election Day 2000.
Last year, they propelled Donald Trump to victory in the US presidential election, and compelled British voters to choose to leave the EU.
Morell, who was "at President George W. Bush's side" on 9/11 and worked closely with Clinton when she was secretary of state, said that he has previously avoided taking political stands, but this election has compelled him to make a change.
At the conclusion of the 2012 presidential election, I felt compelled to post the following Facebook status: "Dear Facebook: Now that the election is over, I look forward to an end to the nasty, divisive political posts.
Zuma, another former exile — he was an A.N.C. security chief during the liberation struggle — defeated Mbeki in party elections and compelled him to resign, in 2008.
The Nigerian military government's pronouncement that it felt compelled to postpone scheduled elections until it is satisfied that civilians can rule themselves, coincided with the dismantling of the feared internal security apparatuses of East Germany, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
