It compelled those in authority to pay close attention to details.

He was compelled in 1846 to retire from the management of this paper.

Would she be compelled in that event to accept the returns?

"And if there's something else that compels me in the future, then I will do it."

She is compelled by ideas of fear and magic in the everyday world.

Private companies cannot be compelled in the same way.

Its voice had the power to compel in a way the magician's could not.

He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.

I felt compelled in common honesty to admit that it was so.

He only resorts to force when compelled to in self-defense.