"compel us to consider" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that something forces or urges us to think about or take a certain action. Example: The recent events in our city compel us to consider implementing stricter safety measures to protect our community.
Yet there are at least two circumstances that compel us to consider Slavick's motivation for resurrecting the military bias for civilians; it may be justified, at least ironically.
Artists are the ones who compel us to consider the nature of our own existence; who have the courage to creep to the edge of the canyon on their bellies and stare into the abyss, and then come back and tell us what they saw.
Dr. Moskowitz's experiences in the Holocaust should compel us to have the greatest rachmanus, (mercy in Yiddish), they should compel us to have the greatest understanding and respect for life, but they should not compel us to consider his ideas wise -- if our goal is the protection of human life on both sides.
Recent developments compel us to consider Hg sources and attenuating factors in neurodevelopment related to early human exposure.
The primary process is not generally regarded as a serious topic of science but the phenomenology of certain non-ordinary states compel us to consider its importance.
Studies like these are at the heart of the new NIEHS Strategic Plan because they compel us to consider how the research we conduct fits into the complex puzzle of improving human health.
Chevalier wanted to know, "Are we supposed to simply walk away and abandon that girl?" Polman insists that conscience compels us to consider that option.
I could pull over, of course, find a room for the night; but I am a man, and the same perversity that stops us from asking for directions when we're lost compels us to consider giving in to anything so measly as a hurricane a blow to masculine pride.
This compelled us to consider another mechanism for the generation of excess pore pressures at that temperature range.
In short, the artist when effective, compels us to consider whether order and chaos exist separately or must occupy the mind simultaneously by each necessitating its apparent opposite.
They have compelled us to consider how our mortgage model effectively transfers wealth from households to financial institutions by requiring that we engage in expensive real estate transaction to move.
