Sentence examples for force to compel from inspiring English sources
Governments are perhaps the most familiar example of an authoritative social actor, as, by most accounts, they generally possess a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force to compel obedience to their mandates in a given geographic area.
As president, Bush assembled a multinational force to compel the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency, see presidency of the United States of America).
Charles I decided to use force to compel them, and he twice sought to use troops raised by a loyal (largely Catholic) Scottish minority, troops from Ireland, and troops from England to achieve this end.
Today Europe's biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app.
Schulhofer (1998) argues, in a similar vein, that the law should recognize two different offenses: sexual assault, which involves the use of "physical force to compel another person to submit to an act of sexual penetration" (283); and sexual abuse, a lesser (though still felonious) crime, which involves sexual penetration without the other person's affirmative and freely given consent.
In late 1901, Vineta and the small cruiser were sent to Venezuela in a show of force to compel the Venezuelan government to make reparations for grievances related to internal conflicts in the 1890s.
The government was then forced to compel merchants to release the goods and pay as low a price as possible.
In the first suit, Village Roadshow, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox Film, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers are joining forces to compel Australian ISPs to block Solarmovie.
It is clear that no global force exists to compel India to head in another direction.
Iran's counterattacks using the revolutionary militia (Revolutionary Guards) to bolster its regular armed forces began to compel the Iraqis to give ground in 1981.
The Senate, in a bid to become more directly involved in the Iran negotiations and to alter the political and moral forces used to compel compliance between Iran and the P5+1 (the UN Security Council's five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — plus Germany), passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act in a 98-1 vote.
