Sentence examples for couldn't compel from inspiring English sources
But he couldn't compel the sincerity of the mourners, and it was genuine.
The court couldn't compel witnesses to appear, and the star witnesses weren't very stellar".
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.
So even if investors would love to take the $30 billion offer that's double Snap's current market cap, they couldn't compel it to do so.
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.
Although a state could order parents to educate their children, it could not compel them to send their children to a public school.
Probably, though, the government should not and could not compel the races to mix, for such compulsion would be a greater evil.
