Sentence examples for compel membership from inspiring English sources

Justice Ginsburg distinguished Dale on the ground that a state antidiscrimination law that seeks to compel membership in a private organization is worlds apart from the Hastings law that "merely" denies CLS the benefit of using Hastings facilities.

Some of the more radical members of this group, known as the "Night Riders", used vigilante violence to compel membership in the Association during what became known as the Black Patch Tobacco Wars.

Indeed, several years before Button, in NAACP v. Alabama, the Court rejected the suggestion that the NAACP could assert constitutional rights independently of its members, but nonetheless concluded that the NAACP had standing to assert the constitutional rights of its members to strike down the state's effort to compel disclosure of its membership list.

Michael Moore said it raised a "huge set of issues" including fishing and banking, plus questions over joining the euro - as all new EU nations are compelled to work towards membership - and the Schengen agreement over border controls, which do not apply to the UK.

Aquinas accepts the teaching of the Church of his era that no one can rightly be compelled to accept the Christian faith or membership of the Church, but that those who are members can and should be compelled by both ecclesiastical and state law to abstain from any public renunciation of it.

MPs are divided on what sort of bill they want: over 100 signed a letter to the prime minister calling for "enabling legislation" in this parliament, compelling the next government to hold a membership referendum.

Heaping scorn on the university's new president, Senator McCarthy called Harvard "a privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists" -- those who, citing their right against compelled self-incrimination, had refused to testify about membership in the Communist Party.

No national human ethics commission, however carefully chosen its membership, could exercise moral authority over Parliament or compel members to change their ethical beliefs.

I have a more favorable view of the membership of BSA, young and old, and I feel compelled to criticize his plan for change.

Legislation which mandates professional association membership may also mean that professional associations are not compelled to represent practitioner interests.

Reports that the Gaddafi regime had ordered aerial attacks and street-thuggery against its own, unarmed civilians compelled the Council unanimously to urge the General Assembly to suspend Libya's U.N. membership.