Sentence examples for attempted to compel from inspiring English sources
This is also true of the completed manual recounts that the Florida Supreme Court has compelled, or attempted to compel, the secretary state to include in the certified election results.
He attempted to compel Nixon, a former attorney general and private-practice lawyer, to represent a 50-year-old illiterate white man in Cole County – a right Barrett claimed he has under state law.
When the FBI attempted to compel Apple to unlock the phone, CEO Tim Cook penned a rare open letter to Apple's customers, explaining his decision to resist.
The FBI attempted to compel Apple to design custom software that would help unlock an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, on the of shooters, but later dropped its case after it was approached by a third party offering another way into the phone.
According to Adams, he often attempted to compel members of the Knickerbockers to attend the sessions.
The Boston Caucus and then the Town Meeting attempted to compel the consignees to resign, but they refused.
Consistent with that, the Bush administration should not use the serious purpose of this inquiry to turn it into an investigation of Mr. Novak or any other journalist, or to attempt to compel any journalists to reveal their sources.
"By claiming racial discrimination, challenging the board's good-faith exercise of its fiduciary duty to shareholders, and creating adverse publicity, plaintiff is attempting to compel the board to approve an apartment purchase that the board has twice voted would subject the corporation and its shareholders to unacceptable financial risk," the board wrote.
Writing in The New Republic last week, Timothy Noah pointed out that Congress has managed to circumvent prior attempts to compel spending cuts, starting with the Gramm-Rudman act of 1985, which "introduced sequestration as a fallback if annual deficit-reduction targets weren't met".
Last week Morgan's family were granted legal aid to attempt to compel the Home Secretary to order a public inquiry into the murder, a request he has refused despite several prominent MPs insisting that it is the only way to resolve the case.
When judges attempt to compel the FDLE to release information about the tracking devices, the state police agency must forward such notices to the assistant director of the FBI's Operational Technology Division, and to the chief of the Technology Tracking Unit in Quantico, Virginia.
