Sentence examples for ability to compel from inspiring English sources

This new ability to compel activity opens up vast new powers.

"The ability to compel purchases is a very awesome and great and attractive power.

Denied the chance to crash and burn, to impart mutual loathing and resentment, they retain their ability to compel.

The FBI program will, however, remain voluntary and FBI officials will have no ability to compel departments to report deaths.

Little, perhaps, but a city, a Y-chromosome and an ability to compel area Twitter users to voice their support in 140, grammatically adventuresome characters.

Mr. Allison said the department was limited in its ability to compel servicers, who participate in the program voluntarily, to reduce mortgage amounts.

I worked at the Oversight Committee for four years and I can tell you with 100-percent certainty that Gowdy does have the ability and authority to compel a witness to appear, talk and produce documents.

Chief among the companies' proposals is a demand to write "sensible limitations" on the ability of government agencies to compel Internet companies to disclose user data, forbidding the wholesale vacuuming of user information.

Congressional committees have the ability to issue subpoenas to compel witness testimony or to obtain documents.

By gutting the ability of these unions to compel members to pay dues or what conservatives call giving people the "right to work" without paying for union benefits the court is expected to torpedo the already-weak labor movement's ability to function.

Restrictions on Fisa court orders: We recommend important restrictions on the ability of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to compel third parties (such as telephone service providers) to disclose private information to the government.