Word: compel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
...greatest amount of discussion was aroused in the controversy over compulsory attendance at Sunday Chapel. In addition to the declaration that forced presence at Chapel was a prostitution of a religious service, its main purpose being to compel students to remain in New Haven a large proportion of the week ends during the college year, those opposed to it brought forward many arguments to support their stand, as did also those who favored the continuance of the present policy...
...that at the very moment when the moral sense of the world is struggling as never before to free itself from the domination of war and force, we are all of us expected to bow down, before Poincare and say: 'Yes, this is the right and Christian way to compel the payment of the debt'. We who hold to our faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ are asked to believe that any sums of money which may be pressed out of the Ruhr are to be sanctified and holy, that the coal mined by a half-starved and half...
...great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this or not. But one thing is certain: the East has never lived so clearly before modern eyes. The book, once opened, cannot be closed. It has caught and held and given triumphant expression to that power that, even today, can compel the spirit of man to "ride in triumph through Persepolis...
...Bolsheviki are very busy talking about war and explaining to the world the significance of the Ruhr, Memel, Vilna. At the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody knows when the bad intentions of our enemies will compel us to get into the field." They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare no opportunity to cover that nation with caustic criticism. They have informed the Allies that they will accept no settlement of the Memel question unless they are consulted, holding that...