Take this reward from them, and go about to compel themby laws thereto, what man will plough or dig the ground, or exercise any manual occupation wherein is any pain?
Staple, put him in prison and detained him for a long time contrary to the tenour of the letters aforesaid to the prejudice of our lord the King and the great damage and loss of the said Hugh and Thomas Ketyll.
And that all Jews answer to the rector of the parish in which they dwell for all parochial dues belonging to their houses.
For it would not be fair in the case of those who are yet youths and do not know which way to turn, to forbid the best way, and through fear to compel them to remain unwillingly by their ancestral institutions.
This policy manifestly tends not only to alarm and irritate the Indians, but to compel them to resort to plunder for subsistence.
Yet these troops are necessary to subdue them and to compel them to make and observe treaties.
Their object was to deprive all dissenters of the right of suffrage, to curtail their civil rights, and render their situation so oppressive as to compel them to leave the colony.
He wished to know whether an armed force or a writ of mandamus would be sent to the State Legislatures to compel them to lay off the districts.
Clergymen shall not bear arms; no one shall injure monks or any unarmed persons who accompany them; except that the bishop or the archdeacon may use such means as are necessary to compel them to pay the taxes which they owe them.
Therefore we grant your petition, venerable brother in Christ, and by our apostolic authority give you full power to use ecclesiastical discipline to compel them to live in their churches, as the law and custom of the church require.
When the time arrived for them to leave, they refused, and the governor called out a military force to compel them to remove beyond the Mississippi.
The new governments passed laws, therefore, to compel them to work, under the penalty of being declared vagrants and sent to jail, where they would be forced to hard labor.
Investigation failed to establish the truth of these charges, but many were put to the torture to compel them to confess, and nearly a hundred were condemned and shot in cold blood.
If those States that may have a superiority in Congress at a future day will pay no respect to the acts of their predecessors, or to the public good, there is no power to compel them.
Creeks that the arms of the Union shall be employed to compel them to acknowledge the justice of the said cessions?
It was the duty of the Chair to compel them to mind their business.
To deprive them of all power of returning to the land the manure yielded by its products, and thus to compel them to exhaust their land.
To compel them, therefore, to export to England all their produce in its rudest forms, at great cost of transportation.
To compel them, with every step in the process of exhausting the land, to increase their distances from each other and from market.
At length these words broke in upon his mind, 'compel them to come in, that my house may be filled--and yet there is room.
Houses and churches were sacked until nothing was left but the bare walls; men and women were tortured to compel them to disclose where more treasure lay hidden.
When the English captured a Spanish vessel the prisoners were tortured, either for the sake of revenge or to compel them to disclose where treasure lay hidden.
I often think of the words of Christ, Compel themto come in.
The French clergy justified this policy by the notorious text Compel them to come in, and appealed to St. Augustine.
It was entitled a Philosophical Commentary on the text Compel them to come in (1686) and in importance stands beside Lockes work which was being composed at the same time.
He formulated the principle of persecution for the guidance of future generations, basing it on the firm foundation of Scriptureon words used by Jesus Christ in one of his parables, Compel them to come in.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compel them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
