Sentence examples for compel performance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Goldman sued to compel performance.

Students in this interdisciplinary course created sculptures that relate directly to the body and compel performance, interaction, and movement.

Students in VIS300/DAN301 will create sculptures that relate directly to the body and compel performance, interaction, and movement.

I, § 10, cl. 3, imposes upon the States a duty to negotiate in good faith with an Indian tribe toward the formation of a compact, § 2710(d)(3)(A), and authorizes a tribe to bring suit in federal court against a State in order to compel performance of that duty, § 2710(d)(7).

Since Holmes wrote, the harsh common law remedy of imprisonment for debt has been abolished in all jurisdictions, generally by statute or constitutional provision, and most of the abolishing statutes are "broad enough to prevent imprisonment as a remedy to compel performance of an equitable decree for payment of the price," 5A Corbin §1145, n.76.

'The parties appear to have usually executed a bond or entered into recognizance in the admiralty court to execute the award; there are several suits to enforce such a bond or to compel performance of the award.' Id. lxix; lxi; p. 90; p. 101; volume 11 p. 18; p. lxx; p. lxxi; p. 39; p. 44.

In the latter case the debtor, though contracting to pay his indebtedness by labor or service, and subject like any other contractor to an action for damages for breach of that contract, can elect at any time to break it, and no law or force compels performance or a continuance of the service.

It "lacks humor, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing characteristic," including "logic, or anything remotely close to heart".

If either side fails to perform, the other party, if ready, willing, and able to perform, may compel the performance.

It is a suit to compel the performance of ministerial duties, from the performance of which the state's officer was not, and could not be, relieved by unconstitutional and void legislative enactments.

It has often been said that a court will not compel specific performance of a promise to perform personal services, on the theory that to do so would be to impose a kind of involuntary servitude on the promisor.