Sentence examples for could not compel from inspiring English sources

It found that Congress could not compel local sheriffs to conduct background checks on gun-owners.

It could summon soldiers who had served the regime as junior officers, but could not compel them to speak.

It could not compel doctors who want to participate in Medicare to also participate in the new public plan.

Probably, though, the government should not and could not compel the races to mix, for such compulsion would be a greater evil.

In 2008, the Supreme Court acknowledged that the international court's ruling was binding but said that the president acting alone could not compel states to comply with it.

Although a state could order parents to educate their children, it could not compel them to send their children to a public school.

The court couldn't compel witnesses to appear, and the star witnesses weren't very stellar".

But he couldn't compel the sincerity of the mourners, and it was genuine.

Whisnant, accepting that he "had no subpoena power" and couldn't compel people to talk, settled for writing a story of vindication.

In now arguing that the existing law couldn't compel it to help the government, the firm was adopting a "near-duplicitous posture" and "trying to carve out a zone of impunity for itself that rightly alarms the government and should alarm the very citizens the company (which calls these citizens 'customers') purports to represent".

The second neuron functioned as the brakes for forward motion, but it couldn't compel the fly to moonwalk.