Sentence examples for intended to compel from inspiring English sources
The sanctions, if passed, are intended to compel Iran to comply with that demand by the Security Council.
Clausewitz cogently defines war as a rational instrument of foreign policy: "an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will".
To grant the favored trade status, Congress must repeal a cold-war-era trade sanction intended to compel the Soviet Union to allow Jewish and other religious minorities to freely emigrate.
The report about the Uzbek president's health, said Danil Kislov, the editor of Fergana News and an authority on Central Asian politics, seems intended to compel Mr. Karimov to designate a successor and head off a similar struggle for power.
What we do get is a complex and moving portrait of a life lived in truth, as Vaclav Havel would put it, within the stultifying confines of a political system intended to compel passivity.
In part, Bush officials have said, they were vexed by diplomatic issues related to Pakistan and debated a combination of threats and incentives intended to compel Pakistani leaders to take a tougher stance toward the Taliban.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal and Attorney General Pat Crank released a letter in which they said the state intended to sue to compel action on its plan.
Today storyboards are used for planning ad campaigns, commercials, proposals, and other projects intended to convince or compel to action.
It's unclear, however, if the move will actually result in Bannon testifying before the grand jury ― or if it's intended only to compel him to agree to an interview with investigators.
The stripped-down budget was intended to hobble the administration and compel the governor to enter negotiations with legislative leaders over additional money for schools and other programs.
He is the main House sponsor of a bill intended to protect journalists from being compelled to give up information about their government sources, even when the sources have divulged matters of national security.
