Sentence examples for capability to compel from inspiring English sources

"I think the Iranians understand that they are not going to dominate Iraq," Mr. Crocker added, " but I think they are going to do their level best to weaken it — to have a weak central government that is constantly off balance, that is going to have to be beseeching Iran to stop doing bad things without having the capability to compel them to stop doing bad things.

Organizational instincts tend to compel the exaggeration of current capabilities.

Mr. Spitzer wants the commission to compel communications companies to build surveillance capabilities into cellphones that use new technology, and into the new Internet-based telephone services.

In it, he argued that power essentially comes in three varieties: the ability to compel people to do what they don't want to do; the capability to stop them doing what they want to do; and the power to shape the way they think.

The United Nations is powerless to compel cooperation.

Military threats tend to compel economic cooperation.

Mr. Goldman sued to compel performance.

To compel scientists to act ethically?

The provision of public goods motivates the creation of institutions designed to compel individuals to cooperate.

We have the capability to do it.

Proven capability to arrest law offenders.