Sentence examples for is designed to compel from inspiring English sources

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The new federal law is designed to compel each state to develop its own coherent system of standards-based reform.

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Third, the divestment proposal would appear to be designed to compel AGL to sell Liddell.

The former was designed to compel him to seek cover, the latter, being heavier than air, to abandon it on pain of suffocation.

He has taken a course other than the one that the statute was designed to compel, a course that the Fifth Amendment gave him no privilege to take.

Turner said that the resolution was designed to compel Obama to come to Congress and make the case for the operation — describing what he knows about the Libyan opposition, and what is supposed to happen if strongman Moammar Gaddafi steps down.

Some of their fixes are designed to compel "the parties" to look beyond their hard-core ideological bases by broadening voter participation via innovations like weekend voting, automatic registration, and (a clever if desperate idea) "a lottery — an election Powerball with a large prize, in which a person gets a ticket in exchange for a voting receipt".

On top of that will no doubt be arguments that the blockade and air attacks were designed to compel the Houthis to withdraw from the areas they occupied and negotiate peace, and involved a lower human cost than the alternative of a massive ground assault.

She also expands Foucault's analysis of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham's design for the ideal prison, a building whose spatial arrangement was designed to compel the inmate to surveil himself, thus becoming, as Foucault famously put it, "the principle of his own subjection" (1977, 203).

"To rebuild houses of worship is a form of compelled support for religion, which is exactly what the First Amendment is designed to protect against," Ms. Sher said.

In a curious way, this little Dada stunt was revealing in exactly the way that the Dada stunts Donald Trump pulls off day after day are: designed to shock and compel attention, they end, as such stunts should, by throwing light on the hypocrisies of the establishment in power.

"Woody at 100" proves to be full of unexpected moments like that, seemingly designed to compel listeners to reassess their image of America's best-known folk singer.

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