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Example sentences for: compel

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--Taxes (including customs duties) are levied through the exercise of the power of the Government to compel payment.
But even that letter stated that the Senate would not attempt to compel Clinton to testify.
Deacon Don Thomas of the Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ in Fairbanks, Alaska, defends what he does to reach the community: "Yeah, we want to compel people to come to Christ, but at the same time we don't want to intrude on people.
First of all by acknowledging, rather than suppressing in a panic, the erotic feelings we have about children: We should realize that finding children seductive does not compel us to fondle them "in a yucky way," as the day-care prosecutors so nicely put it.
It seems to compel the dance, as if the particular steps danced to each note and bar were inevitable and any other steps would be wrong.