Sentence examples for action to compel from inspiring English sources
First, there must be the use or threat of action to compel a government or to intimidate the public.
Collins said it was conceivable that lawyers acting for alleged victims would take legal action to compel police forces to hand over their files on Savile.
The journalist Joan Smith has become the group's new Executive Director, promising renewed action to compel the newspaper companies to abide by Leveson's proposals.
Westchester agreed to "take legal action to compel compliance if municipalities hinder or impede the county" in complying with the agreement.
Lawyers for the campaigner and three media organisations – the Guardian, BBC's Newsnight and the Press Association – are taking legal action to compel prosecutors to give an explanation.
If the board does not do that, he said, an individual shareholder can take legal action to compel it to fulfill its obligations.
Some Democrats, however, said they thought Mr. Pataki should re-examine his commitment to free trade and take some actions to compel the utilities to build more transmission lines and improve the infrastructure throughout the state.
Lord Saville has lost court actions to compel the soldiers to come here, and this week he announced that the inquiry would move to England this summer to take their testimony there.
Investors in mortgage securities, which include pension funds and insurance companies, are currently embroiled in numerous lawsuits and private actions to compel banks to repurchase faulty mortgages.
Limited leadership buy-in within the Department of Social Development, outside of the HIV/AIDS‟ Directorate and NACCA, and the limited ability of NACCA and the DSD‟s HIV/AIDS‟ directorate (the main locii of UNICEF activity) to compel action provincially, locally and cross-departmentally has frustrated the implementation of a number of OVC related activities supported by UNICEF.
The Spanish-American War is unique in that the principle goal of United States military action was to compel Spain to grant Cuba its political independence.
