But Buchanan used heavy-handed threats to compel Chong to agree to a guilty plea.
Owen will have the power to compel the production of witnesses and documents from the British security and intelligence services.
And the truth that language changes over time does not compel us to endorse any particular change.
Yet it is not just the acts of brutality that compel his attention: it is the ways in which they are licenced by authority.
Whether his domestic troubles will compel him to be more accommodating in these talks remains to be seen.
And who is able to compel you to assent to that which appears false?
My name will suffice, if you compel me to dispense with yours.
I came to this room to-night with one deliberate purpose—to accomplish what I have done; to compel you to support this measure.
The economic interests of France also compel us to remain there.
In addition to this source of incompleteness, it seemed impossible to compel the tribunals to keep their records in proper shape.
mid-14c., from Old French compellir, from Latin compellere "to drive together, drive to one place" (of cattle), "to force or compel" (of persons), from com- "together" (see com-) + pellere "to drive" (see pulse (n.1)). Related: Compelled; compelling.
