Word: compel
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...half billion paper lire will be retired from the six and a half billion now circulating. Similar deflation will be continued, year by year, as an annual budgetary expense. Meanwhile the Banco d' Italia will be given special supervisory powers over all other Italian banks to compel them to accumulate a surplus equal to 40% of their capitalization...
...whom he sees taking aid. This, as even the dullest student knows, is a far cry from honor. In the second place, it is a system whose benefits all flow in the direction. The faculty is usually better for it than the students are, and for good reason it compels students to be honorable with the professor, but it does not compel the professor to be honorable with the students. He is not compelled to ask fair questions or consider previous diligence...
...defining state authority, the Court did not only limit. In the case of the Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska, the Court held that the territory could legally compel fish canneries which pack large amounts of fish to pay a higher tax per pound than canneries with smaller outputs. The Court declared that the tax was fair because it tended to preserve the subject (fish) of taxation...
...perfectly possible for an American woman to go to even the worst places in Paris and compel respect for American ideals. But I do not recommend such an experiment to young and possibly inexperienced persons, who may perhaps not possess what I am not ashamed to call my common sense and judgment. There are times for being modest and speaking low, and there are times for giving good advice out loud...
...idea is applicable to all our relations. In everything, we should stop short of conflict, while never abandoning a foundation principle. For example, things of faith, of religion, of ethics, are very great to us Americans, and their very greatness compels, or should compel, restraint. We shall always have our Fundamentalists and our Modernists. These two are real words, and splendidly descriptive. Neither side could have been more fortunate in its name. There is something that governs the universe, and always has governed it and always will govern it, that lies at the bottom of things. The minds and hearts...