One form of ordeal was to compel the accused to plunge his arm into boiling water and if innocent the Lord would protect him from being scalded.
The prosecution has no right to compel the accused to show that he is a good member of society.
Another form of ordeal was to compel the accused to walk barefoot over hot plow shares.
In an unincorporated village there is no power tocompel the citizens to do these things.
Hence we see that it was the policy of the British government to compel the colonists to buy of England all the goods they wanted which they did not themselves produce, and to sell to England the surplus productions of the colonies.
The question was once more the Homeopathic issue, which took the form of a legislative action to compel the Regents to remove the School to Detroit.
Two years later the question came up once more in its first form, in an effort tocompel the Regents to establish the proposed Department.
Besides this motive which affected the occupants of the throne, there was a corresponding one which led the officers of the court to encourage and perhaps sometimes to compel the emperors to abdicate.
For this purpose he deemed it wise to initiate a successor while he still had the influence and the power to compel the acquiescence of the feudal lords of the empire.
The maintenance of the emperor and his court was a function of the shÅgun, and hence it was almost always possible for him to compel the emperor to pursue any policy which he might desire.
Then too, if the royal treasury should happen to run dry, he thought it might be convenient to coax or compel the Jews to lend him a round sum.
In directing this measure the object was to compel the enemy to contribute as far as practicable toward the expenses of the war.
Clark admitted that Brannan was the head of the Mormon church in California, and he was simply questioning as to Brannan's right, as high-priest, to compel the Mormons to pay him the regular tithes.
It might be made use of to compel the States to comply with the will of the Gen^l Government, and to grant it any new powers which might be demanded.
The programme was to compel the parliament to terrorize the king, which was very easy, because of the gross licentiousness of Louis XV.
As she had threatened to persecute the Catholics of Russia and to compel the Poles to enter the Orthodox Church, it was clear that there was no choice but to submit to her demands.
But even the little white wagtails (Motacilla alba), whom we well know in our gardens and whose whole length hardly attains eight inches, compel the sparrow-hawk to abandon its hunt.
In Austria sheer force was used by the Government, in 1768, to compel thecommunes to divide their lands-- a special commission being nominated two years later for that purpose.
The Justices, however, proved helpless to conciliate the conflicting interests, and still less to compel the masters to obey their decisions.
The Grand National Union was disbanded, and all over the country, both the private employers and the Government in its own workshops began to compel the workers to resign all connection with unions, and to sign "the Document" to that effect.
Such to the British people was the conviction of their right and need to compel the service of their native seamen, wherever found on the high seas.
It was open to it to bear them under adequate protest, sympathizing with the evident embarrassments of the old cradle of the race; or, on the other hand, to do as she was doing, strain every nerve to compel the cessation of outrage.
Even so it required another visit of Spragge's squadron to Algiers to compel the pirates to keep faith.
In the West Indies the local agents were busy in endeavouring to compel the Spaniards to buy their negroes from us.
English, but it is very doubtful whether even the commands of his own king would have been enough to compel the Count d'Estrees to render ready obedience to Spragge or Jordan.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compel the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
