Sentence examples for tries to compel from inspiring English sources

California, with a colossal hole in its budget and 12 percent unemployment, is confronting this quandary as it tries to compel Amazon.com to collect sales tax.

At the paper, he said, he tries to compel his editors, who are anti-coup, to provide balanced coverage: "For every three pro-Mel op-eds, I say they should run three anti.

It also tries to compel large apartment buildings to pay their overdue bills by putting them into lien sales, but only if their property taxes are also in arrears.

He forbids her to see his young cousin, Ladislaw, and threatens to disinherit her should she ever marry him; then he tries to compel her to finish his great work in the event of his death — which follows a few pages later.

However, they have concluded they would have a stronger case to fight a subpoena if Mueller tries to compel Trump's testimony about actions he took as president — questions that would probably go to the heart of the special counsel's obstruction investigation.

So Total and the Khartoum government play a little game: Every year Sudan's oil ministry tries to compel Total to begin extraction under its contract; every year Total invokes force majeure, pays some $50,000 to renew the license for its concessions and does nothing.

Sorry, but I won't try to compel that decision.

Ms. Lacognata sued Hospira unsuccessfully to try to compel the company to make it again.

"We are trying to compel them to spend money here," he said.

Some companies, however, try to compel those customers to work a little harder.

That spent seven years trying to compel the New York Times' James Risen to reveal his sources.