Word: compel
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...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...
...come to believe that only a Hitler could make such a day and such a turnout. It was a day for men who obeyed a law, yet knew well enough that in all the U. S. there were not enough soldiers, policemen, judges, prison wardens to compel their obedience; for the rich, the poor, the salaried, for men with names, creeds, skins, tongues from all the earth. On their...
...Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in a combatant capacity in any of the public armed forces of the United States, who is found to be a member of any well-recognized religious sect whose creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, if the conscientious holding of such belief by such person shall be established under such regulations as the President may prescribe; but no person shall be relieved from service in such capacity as the President may declare to be noncombatant...
...Compel manufacturers to give the Army, Navy or any other Government agency prior call on their output...
...dauntlessly civilized Chesterton between the middle '20s and his death in 1936. His point of view is consistent, two of his premises are peculiarly interesting: 1) that the Allies fought World War I in a cause that was too good for them, and for which Hitler would compel them to fight again-a cause of which they were not fully aware: to preserve Western Christendom from destruction by Prussia, the comparatively new, barbaric overlord of an otherwise civilized Germany; 2) that Christian Poland was the great bulwark and friend of Western Europe...