Sentence examples for pressure to compel from inspiring English sources

First and foremost, it is a form of political pressure to compel Taiwan to accept Beijing's sovereignty.

He should now use all necessary pressure to compel Israel to freeze new settlement—including the provocative expansion of Maale Adumim (see article)—as called for by the international "road map".

For a long time, the African Zimbabwean leadership believed that a solution to the political problem of the country lay in using political pressure to compel Britain to call a constitutional conference.

Though the details of the policy remained classified, senior administration officials described it as a mix of incentives and pressure to compel cooperation from the government in Khartoum, Sudan's capital.

Against the fear that could dissuade collaborators, there are new pressures to compel Palestinians to work with Israel: deeper poverty and the increased difficulty of moving even from one town to another on roads shut by Israeli checkpoints.

Others raised the question whether Dr. Lee had been the target of racial profiling, and Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania asked whether Dr. Lee had been shackled and denied bail as part of a regimen of "pressures to compel a guilty plea".

China heaped diplomatic pressure on Japan to compel it to concede in a maritime dispute, rankled India by raising claims to territory in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, and pressed its rights to the South China Sea*, marking a new seriousness to claims over a hotly contested swath of ocean.

Buni and Chemaly report that since Agustsdottir's situation made headlines – and after a sustained campaign by feminist activists, including Chemaly herself, put pressure on advertisers to compel Facebook to change its practices – Facebook has since worked openly with activists, including Citron, to help steer action inside the network.

Once again, it took Congressional pressure against Mr. Obama to compel him to fess up against Iran's ballistic missile testing before the ink was dry on the nuclear accord.

"The American administration must respond to this provocation with actual measures, as it is no longer possible to just turn the other cheek," he continued, "and massive American pressure is required in order to compel Israel to abandon its peace-destroying behavior".

What has been the effect of these humanitarian embargoes--still in place because the international community refuses to put sufficient pressure on the Khartoum regime to compel their lifting?