compels

That's the one where God slams His mighty fist into the back of the idiot's head and yells "The power of Darwin compels you!"

Cell phone driving ban works (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Gotta learn em all, because my nerd brain compels me.

Mootools released | FactoryCity 2006

The furnace, in short, compels us to breathe an atmosphere highly rarefied.

Homes and How to Make Them 1875

Flicking her hair coquettishly, she addressed him as "brother leader" – choosing as a free woman in a free country to honour the title Gaddafi compels his subject people to use on pain of punishment.

Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen 2011

It is well that our attention has been called to this most vital of all themes by a book, whose very name compels attention to its content, and whose content is but its name in fuller treatment.

The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

Indians kneel between two rows of soldiers, an officer with drawn sword compels each in turn to open his mouth, into which a second officer throws a handful of salt, amid general laughter at the wry faces of the Indians.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

I am a prince of hell, and come because thy mighty call compels me.

Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1791

I mean it "compels" them, assuming we grant their priorities, which is to survive politically.

Can't You See? Crucial Differences Too Many on the Left Seem to Miss 2007

Tribal leaders, Heidi, say that the sky walk really speaks to something in human nature that just kind of compels us to walk right to the edge.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007 2007

But the description of Justin given in the following account, is evidently such as compels us to refer it to the famous apologist and martyr of the second century.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001