Sentence examples for i have compelled from inspiring English sources

I have compelled this town to rant and howl, dressed it in fawnskin, put my pine-cone-tipped and ivy-vested spear into its hands, and all because my mother's sisters claim that Zeus is not the father of Dionysus— how could they speak such slander?

I have compelled friends and strangers in a doomed bar of downtown Houston to listen to Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf" on loop with me until I was certain that everyone's evening had been thoroughly ruined.

I did worry that my daughter might feel compromised in repeating something she knew to be false simply to get a better grade, and I would not have compelled her to do so.

But new regulations have compelled Goldman to leave this business.

Two things seem to have compelled the government to reverse course.

Such a scenario might have compelled someone more compos mentis to turn around.

Tough times have compelled small-business owners like Mr. Gumas to rethink long-held business practices.

Those hard realities have compelled Ford, as well as General Motors, to make serious changes.

But circumstances have compelled us to do this for our own safety," he says.

And those ancient experiences have compelled our actions ever since.

The recent weakness seems to have compelled Wal-Mart toward a strategy shift.