But seeing a vaster field in which righteousness must be revealed, hecompels himself, as it were, to face the difficulties which are encountered in that survey.
The sense of some inimical power observing him, pursuing him, compels him to move carefully and no longer with the free stride of security.
He steadies the Sultan's tottering throne, and compels six great Christian powers to stand by in silence while humanity is outraged.
That, then, which needs nothing outside itself, which can accomplish all things in its own strength, which enjoys fame and compels reverence, must not this evidently be also fully crowned with joy?
No necessity compels one who is voluntarily walking to go forward, although it is necessary for him to go forward at the moment of walking.
Example: The natural law requires that parents provide for their young children, and that children assist their needy parents; the civil law adopts these natural principles, compels their observance, and punishes transgressors.
It is to be regretted that the smallness of the husband's salary often compels the wife to work outside her home.
Mennonites, some Quakers); otherwise onecompels another to swear against his conscience and indevoutly.
To secure this Nature has placed inside birds a force, dormant at most times, which at periodic intervals completely overrides all normal instincts, a force which compels parent birds to rivet their attention on the nest and its contents.
Some internal force which is irresistible compels it to seek twigs and weave them into a nest.
Only one out of the later group, Bradford Torrey, compels attention.
One turns page after page of the thick volumes of the collected lyrics to find some simple human bit that came hot from the heart of a poet, some stanza that compels quotation, but one gets lost at length in the maze of sweetness.
Curiosity compels him to gaze at her; he looks and does not trust his eyes.
But I can four, which compels me to back up again to get to my beginning.
NED catches both her hands in his and compels her to look at him.
As it was, a regard to truth compels me to acknowledge that I found them very much the reverse.
Such was the young maiden whom the nature of the present tale compels us thus particularly to introduce to our readers.
He steals their clothes, and thus compels the one whom he chooses to accept him as her husband.
He succeeds in doing so, and thus compels her to remain with him and become his wife.
There the hero is a Bodisat, who, if he does not recognize his beloved among the thousand companions who surround her, at least has a spell the utterance of which compels her to step out from among them.
The mother's visits to her children are, indeed, a frequent sequel to the story; and occasionally the tie which compels her to return is taken advantage of by the forsaken husband to obtain possession of her again.
Amid the perplexity of the time, his clear and clarifying mind formulated Christian doctrine so perfectly that he compels his readers to see what he sees.
Moreover, the complete absence of references to this Epistle in the extant writings of Irenaeus[1] almost compels us to ask if the Greek Churches of Southern Gaul and Asia Minor regarded this Epistle as Pauline.
For while ever loyal to "the old flag and an appropriation," a sense of duty compels me to advise that this branch of the Smithsonian Institute is of doubtful utility.
To Fouche, minister of police, Napoleon is reported to have said, in reply, "Is it my fault that the height of power which I have attained compels me to ascend to the dictatorship of the world?
The great power I have already attained compels me to assume an universal dictatorship.
A sense of loyalty to the others, a noblesse oblige, compels one to be as lavish as those flamboyant outsiders who go there.
But really it only proves that the present system compels selfishness.
At last, being able to bear it no longer, he compels her to leave the home of her parents, where they have hitherto been living, and establishes himself in a distant town.
Brandes's earlier activity and compels many an admirer of his literary art to revise his previous opinion of him.
Now as man is man by virtue of the internal of his thought, for this is his very spirit, obviously he compels himself when he compels the external of his thought to comply or to receive the enjoyments of his affections or the goods of charity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
